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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.

2018-02-19

2010s, 2018, Australia, c64, petscii.

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PETSCIIBOTS, on-going project by Cal Skuthorpe. h/t: iLKke

2018-02-18

2010s, 2017, calligram, code.

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A paper that is both a text and an executable program that plays music. Made by Tom 7 in his custom C compiler. More info here.

2018-02-17

petscii.

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Hypnotist by an unknown artist.

2018-02-16

2010s, 2018, ascii, netherlands.

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Brand new issue of Legowelt’s Shadow Wolf Cyberzine with great articles by various contributors.

2018-02-15

2010s, 2017, Australia, france, street art.

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By Rashe in Melbourne, photo from here.

2018-02-14

1960s, 1969, ascii, ebcdic, frederick hammersley, usa.

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garadinervi:

Frederick Hammersley, A Good Line is Hard to Beat, 1969, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA / Frederick Hammersley Foundation

2018-02-13

1960s, 1969, ascii, ebcdic, frederick hammersley, print, usa.

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ASCII art by Frederick Hammersley, 1969. Made on an IBM-computer (which used EBCDIC and not ASCII encoding), and:

The alphanumeric characters we could ‘draw’ with were: the alphabet, ten numerals and eleven symbols, such as periods, dashes, slashes, etc….

h/t: Robert Doerfler

2018-02-12

crafts, weaving.

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Native American Hopi baskets. First and second one by Annette Nasafotie, third one by Caroline Fred, fourth one by an unknown artist.