A tool to draw ANSI through music, in realtime. ANSI MIDIo visualizer
is small piece of hardware by Will Lindsay (aka VBLANK) that converts notes to text characters, and velocity to colours.
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ASCII-morph is a Javascript library to transition between two ASCII art works. By Timothy Holman.
h/t: Tim Koch
BBS-screens, courtesy of Jason Scott, from an article about the history of American bulletin boards in the 80s and 90s.
Keyfax was the US version of the British Ceefax teletext. It was launched in 1982 but was shut down already by 1984, partly due to problems with getting the British teletext decoders approved in USA. Instead, Keyfax became a videotex service in Chicago and changed from the British standard to the American NAPLPS. But that failed too and Keyfax went bust in 1986. More info.
Post updated in 2024.
Teletext graphics by Richard Gingras, 1980. This service was called Now and ran on KCET-TV. It was part of a collaboration between CBS, NBC and PBS to test the French Antiope standard for teletext. The project was supported by Télédiffusion de France.
Images from Gingras’ website, which is only partly archived on archive.org. There’s an interview with Gingras about his teletext work here.
Post updated 2024.
Naked PETSCII bouncings by Max Capacity, 2011.
Good shading in this ASCII-conversion by Loxosceles in 2001.
In the 1870′s, Brooklyn Furniture Company spent more on ads than any other furniture company. And they did plenty of text graphics!
More in this ASCII-detective story.