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2014-09-10
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Various American Commodore 64/128 BBS-software from the 80s and 90s. via

2014-09-08
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ASCII gifs by Vanessa VanAlstyne, 2014.

2014-09-05
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New York Public Library is experimenting with PETSCII to generate covers for books that don’t have one. Each letter in the title of the book is replaced by a corresponding PETSCII-character in one of its two character sets. So A become ▲ and F becomes ▂ and so on.

More here.

2014-08-29
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PlayNET was an American online system for Commodore 64, launched in 1983. It used PETSCII and pixel graphics. It was bought by QuantumLink, who later turned into AOL. 

h/t: Tim Koch

2014-08-28
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Scott E Fahlman suggests a use of :) and :( in September, 1982. This happened on a bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. It caught on pretty fast, and in November there were already several variations.

There are many older examples of emoticons, but this is likely what popularized emoticons as we know them today.

source

2014-08-20
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PETSCII by Max Capacity, 2014.

2014-08-16
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ASCII Space by reaktorplayer, 2012. Abstract and eerie.

2014-08-15
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ASCII video conversion by Andy Wallace, 2011, with an interesting choice of font.

2014-08-14
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A public service message from 1974 by Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke, who later made Koyaanisqatsi. This was shown on prime time TV in USA. Watch it and read more.

2014-08-10
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Knitoscope Testimonies by Cat Mazza, 2006. An animation in cross stitch of interviews with various individuals working within the labor movement. via.

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