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2017-12-31

1990s, 1992, ansi, usa.

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By JC.

2017-12-31

1930s, Russia, typewriter.

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Russian typewriter art from the 1930′s made by Elena Rebinder, who was married with the famous chemist Piotr Rebinder. Scanned by Prozhito. h/t: Gleb Albert.

2017-12-30

1980s, 1988, animation, bbs, c64, petscii, scene.

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PETSCII movie by Matt Williams, 1988. Watch the original 5-minute movie about a mysterious pizza shortage here.

2017-12-29

1980s, 1987, animation, atascii.

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Clip from an Atari ATASCII animation with sound from 1987. Likely first published on a BBS. It’s called Rambone and was made by Kung Fu Master. Recovered and filmed by Ryan Goolevitch. h/t Marcin Wichary.

2017-12-28

ancient, square kufic, sweden.

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Some archeologists now suggest that the vikings were heavily inspired by islam and made their own Arabic square kufic script. Read more here.

2017-12-27

2010s, 2017, animation, Australia, c64, custom charset, petscii, ray manta.

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C64 PETSCII with custom font by DataDoor.

2017-12-26

2010s, 2017, c64, finland, grid, petscii.

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C64 PETSCII by Dr.TerrorZ.

2017-12-25

2010s, 2017, finland, petscii, scene.

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C64 PETSCII by Vent.

2017-12-24

1990s, 1999, ansi, DOS, zzt.

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worldsofzzt:

Merry f’n Chrismas by Ibuki (1999)
[FUKNXMAS.ZZT] – :;color kit lemmer tk vblegh
Download / Explore fuknxmas.zip on the Museum of ZZT
Play on Archive.org

2017-12-23

1980s, 1982, animation, c64, petscii.

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Commodore’s Christmas demo from 1982, combining PETSCII and pixel graphics.