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Amish quilt from 1890, trixel style.

via design-is-fine:

Lone Star, 1890. Amish quilt, family Samuel Zook, Pennsylvania. Sammlung Schlumberger, Photo Rainer Viertlböck. Exhibition 2007, Neue Sammlung München. Exhibition Daimond and Bars. The Art of the Amish, 2007

Sammy the Sea Serpent for Atari 8-bit, 1981. Excellent text-mode story telling for kids, with minor interaction. Runs both data and audio from the cassette at the same time, according to atarimuseum.

h/t: drx

Kopimi Totem (2014) by Evan Roth features 7 wi-fi routers, whose network names together form an ASCII-pyramid. They all provide read/write access to the Piratbyrån archives.

Text-mode animation for Atari 8-bits. It uses a custom made character set so I suppose it’s not ATASCII. Or is it? Cursor art!

more here

Pretty great fight animation in ATASCII. By Peter A. Ritchie, 1986. source/more

Work in progress by Tyler Deeb, 2014. The photo of the finished work, Dead Flowers Mural, was added in 2024.

Compact discs – the wave of the future.

ANSI found by Aaron Kuhn, author unknown.

IBM building, Honolulu. By Vladimir Ossipoff, 1962

PlayNET – a mid-1980’s online service for the C64. Most images from playnet.us.

9/11-themed art works by Douglas Coupland, on display at the Daniel Faria Gallery.

h/t: the Guardian