“Typewriter Art”, printed in 1975 and edited by Alan Riddell, features work by artists from over 20 countries, spanning from the early 20’s through the 50’s (and the coining of the term concrete poetry) to the tripped-out 70’s.
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Densha Otoko (電車男), aka Train Man, by Hitori Nakano, 2004.
Based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku who intervened when a drunk man started to harass several women on a train. The event was chronicled on 2chan. This led to the compilation of the relevant threads in Densha Otoko.
(Link added in 2024)
The WOW marks the proof of aliens, and it’s spelled out 6EQUJ5!
SETI is the scientific method to find alien radio. It’s not an easy task, since you don’t know what you’re looking for. At all. So SETI includes some speculations. In this case, this hot text mode graph shows extremely loud occurences of the frequency 1420 MHz. That’s the frequency where hydrogen resonates, which is the most common element in the universe, so it should be the medium of choice for aliens. Fuck yeah science.
On a related note, The Arecibo message, which could also be textmode, was sent out only a few years before this discovery, in 1974. Just coincidence? The truth is out there, Scully, and it is in radio text mode.
Autopoem Nr. 1 by Gerhard Stickel, 1965. Generated with an IBM 7090.
Typewritten American flag by Menno Fast, 1948.
George Washington typewriter portrait by Rosaire J. Belanger, 1939.
These proto-emoticons were published in the satirical magazine Puck on 30 March, 1881. Although often described as the first emoticons, they seem to be a rip-off of a Polish magazine from just a few weeks earlier.
Read more or see more emoticons from the 1800’s.
Post updated in 2024.
