Madonna and Child in The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1, 1976. via.
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Detail from ACiD Is The Best by King Midas / ACiD, 1996.
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?
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.
