Tag Archives: 1980s

Sprite sheet on paper, created in 1989 for Commodore 64 by Stone Oakvalley.

Reliefs by Ellen Marx, around 1980.

All American BBS – a software to run your own bulletin board. The American way! It’s still in use, for example at Borderline BBS.

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Susan Kare’s notebook with Apple’s bitmap images.

#Teletext for All. Mark Cook’s’advertising flyer dating from c.1982, via.

Park Avenue (teletext soap) at ORACLE Teletext ITV p126 (1988-1991), created by Robbie Burns. Via.

In November 1981 in UK, Kenneth Baker, the Minister for Information Technology, proclaimed 1982 as “Information Technology Year, IT-82.” to support for the use of IT, like teletext and viewdata. Via

Oracle Teletext 1980s, via.

From the book The forms of colour: the interaction of visual elements by Karl Gerstner, 1986. via design-is-fine.

Class by Brian Hastings, 1986. ATASCII animation on Atari 800 that won the Atari ‘Toons contest in the ANTIC magazine. They call it cursor art.

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