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Video about Paul Smith, the Typewriter artist. Originally aired March-April of 1976 on KOIN-TV in Portland Oregon.

Page from Snapshots by Mary Beams. Made with Norpak Telidon terminal in the early 80s. Image from the article Graphics Artistry On Line in BYTE Magazine 1983-07.

Leetspeak and possible emoticons from 1890. Found by Koichi Yasuoka, who writes:

The article shown right is from The Typewriter World (Chicago), Vol.I, No.2 (October 1897), p.46, which I found in The New York Public Library. You see the sentense “he Said it would Be a thxng of beavty & jOy FORever” is followed by a combination of punctuation marks, a semicolon and a right parenthesis, which is one of the so-called emoticons nowadays. I cannot make sure that it was really intended to represent a winking smile, but I need to check Berkshire News (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) of February 6, 1890. How do you think about this?

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RTTY  art by SABRINA PHILLIPS for AD4V.

Excerpt from 5 Biblical Poems by Jackson Mac Low, made in 1955 and published in 1968. Made by chance, using the bible. From Words to be Looked at.

squirrelmonkeyworld:

Bon Ross in text mode! The Joy of Painting

Thanks to prostheticknowledge for the tip.

 yei navajo rug weaving

betonbabe:

STUDENTS FROM MIT (PROF. R. PREUSSER)

SCULPTURAL TILE MODULES, 1960s

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 is a book about a C64 BASIC program. The program creates maze-like structures by “randomly” printing slash or backslash. Photo from Creative Applications.

Authors: Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample and Noah Vawter.

Braille Single Cell Sampler, via.