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Digitiser, a British teletext magazine, 1993-2003. It used surreal language, strange humour, fake advertising and made fun of contributors. There is a video of this issue here. Super Page 58 has saved some of the texts. Wikipedia has more information. Pictures from gearforgold & luizalfonso.

TEXT MODE ILLUSIONS. By Jo Edkins.

Ascii version of Lewis Carroll’s The Mouse’s Tale, 1864 by David Palmer, who says he was ASCII-active 1998-2006.

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Concrete Poetry from Poor.Old.Tired.Horse at the ICA (2009)

Train Types by Andrew Belsey

ASCII for LulzSec, a hacker group that only existed for a few weeks, but made some very high profile hacks. Wikipedia

Grid 4 by Simon Parritt, 1975 or possibly 1971 (according to Igor Siddiqui in Slashed Interiors: Text/Space) or perhaps some other early 70’s year as suggested in Typewriter Art.

Ceolfrith No.15 by Dom Sylvester Houédard, 1972.

By Chris Hester “when I was a young man in the 70s, or possibly early 80s.” source

Prestel, 1984. Here you can view the graphics as text.