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Chinese DOS font, via
The font of the Japanese computer NEC PC-9801. The line at the top is basically Western ASCII, and the rest is the Japanese characters. Japanese ASCII-art is often called shift_JIS or AA (for Ascii Art).
Watch it in full-size. Thanks to Daniel Rehn for the tip.
Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. It’s about 5000 years old, and was the dominant written language in the Middle East (while the Egyptians were all hieroglyphics). It was used for three millennia.
For our digital convenience, it’s been packaged into Unicode.
Photo by nantel.