text-mode.org | Text graphics: ASCII, PETSCII and its distant relatives.

2018-03-01

2010s, 2018, animation, character set, font, game, usa.

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Terminal Rain, a textmode game with a custom font, developed by Jackson Lango. (Twitter)

2018-02-28

1990s, font.

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A floppy disk with a font that only contained the symbol that would replace Prince’s name in 1993. Ironically it still says Prince on the floppy disk. The font is still useful to download, because Ƭ̵̬̊.. Source.

2018-02-27

2010s, 2014, amiga, ascii, germany, print, sweden.

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ASCII cover by Erik Jäähalli (Dino) for his split cassette with Flacid: Analog space music 4 aliens.

2018-02-26

1980s, 1983, terminal, textmode.

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WarGames (1983) uses what looks like a custom font to display thermonuclear text mode graphics. It was made on a CompuPro 8/16, although an IMSAI 8080 is used in the movie (apparently for sale for $25,000). Read more, see more.

2018-02-25

1800s, 1880s, 1888, print, usa.

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yesterdaysprint:

The Osage City Free Press, Kansas, April 26, 1888

Yet another type dude.

2018-02-24

1900s, 1904, flora stacey, typewriter, usa.

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yesterdaysprint:

The Winfield Daily Free Press, Kansas, April 18, 1904

2018-02-23

2010s, 2018, japan, shiftjis, Twitter.

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Tweet from TwitAA_bot.

2018-02-22

2010s, japan, shiftjis, Twitter.

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140asciiart has been posting tons of tweets lately, where しょぼーん (shobōn) is holding various things.

2018-02-21

2010s, 2018, animation, ascii, conversion.

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Hatsune Miku in 1000 layers of ASCII characters, by James Lyle. Full video here.

2018-02-21

1930s, typewriter.

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A study from 1934 on how kids used the typewriter, and how it changed the classrom. Source. h/t: Marcin Wichary, whose forthcoming book about keyboards might interest you.