Michael Jackson & Giko Cat in a gif, 2012.
Eduardo Kac, Tesão, 1985/86 – Videotex (minitel) animated poem.
Le Merle (The Blackbird) by Norman McLaren, 1958. More.
Animated fish tank in ASCII by Daniel John Jones, some time before the original post in May 2012.
John Whitney’s 1972 work Matrix III remixed in ANSI by YouTube user skuzzyanimation, who has more ANSI-interpretations like this.
Live shift-JIS ASCII drawing by shishiaa, 2005.
Well-made shift-JIS conversion of the Bad Apple video. It is a meme that grew out of the Touhou project – the world’s largest collaborative shooter game series. The first game was made in 1996 for the PC-9801 and had nice FM-music.