Hologrammer by Alan Riddell. Published in Typewriter Poems, 1972.
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Great clip from 1984 where Rolf Harris demonstrates C64 text mode graphics with great enthusiasm to Toni Arthur. “You can choose any colour you want!”
Looks like the software uses a slightly customized petscii font. He also announces a text mode compo, for single images and animations.
The Mouse’s Tale by Lewis Carroll. Featured in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.
Ascii advertising in London, 2007. From here.
An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK launched in 1979. A bit like interactive teletext.
Chris Sievey – Camouflage, 1983. This video shows a ZX81-program that runs in sync with the song. Sieve programmed the software as well. It available on the B-side of the 7″ vinyl, as a harsh audiostream of data. This audio could be loaded as software on the ZX81. More info.
Btw – the ZX81 turned 31 years old yesterday!
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by John Furnival, 1964.
John Furnival’s The Fall of the Tower of Babel is one of the early classics of concrete poetry and exists in many versions. It depicts the Biblical story of the splintering of the World’s languages as a vision of nuclear apocalypse.
Updated in 2024, with help from this.
HANDS UP! was an animation series in teletext (!) that teaches sign language. Main animator was Ian Irving. Uploaded to Youtube by Richard Shaw-Wright.
> Watch the playlist of all 10 episodes
> All episodes on archive.org
Post updated in 2024.
