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2014-07-19

1980s, 1982, Ceefax, oracle, prestel, print, teletext, uk, viewdata.

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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

2014-06-21

2010s, 2011, germany, print, unicode.

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decodeunicode – Die Schriftzeichen der Welt

Book with all 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. It’s 656 pages, made in 2011 by Johannes Bergerhausen & Siri Poarangan for the decodeunicode project.

The book uses 66 different fonts since there is no font that supports all Unicode characters. Images from here and here.

2014-06-20

2000s, 2007, germany, print, unicode.

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Poster with all 51,980 characters of Unicode 5.0 (2007). By Johannes Bergerhausen, Siri Poarangan & Wenzel Spingler for the decodeunicode project.

2014-05-05

1800s, 1860s, 1862, emoticons, print, usa.

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Possibly an example of a smiley from 1862: “(applause and laughter ;)”. From a transcript in the New York Times of an Abraham Lincoln speech.

source

2014-05-02

1900s, 1905, austria, print.

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Whist, a playing cards set by Ditha Moser (Vienna, 1905-1906).

2014-04-08

2010s, advertising, ascii, print, usa.

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Breast implant ASCII advertising, via

h/t: Lazerbeat

2014-04-07

2010s, 2011, game, print, printer, switzerland.

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Receipt Racer by Undef & Joshua Noble, 2011. Using a Playstation gamepad, the user controls a car that is projected on to the paper coming out of the receipt printer.

2014-03-17

1920s, 1928, pattern, print, usa.

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