
Stempeltext by Ferdinand Kriwet, 1963. via Paul Prudence (via Tim Koch)
Stempeltext by Ferdinand Kriwet, 1963. via Paul Prudence (via Tim Koch)
From MAD Magazine, 1965. via rainemanisfake
Works by Channa Horwitz (1932-2013), via Eko33
Timm Ulrichs, in «edition et» no. 3, Edited by Bernhard Höke, Verlag Christian Grützmacher, Berlin, 1967. Via garadinervi.
Military ASCII art from 1967 using a custom system that combined US ASCII and vector graphics, fit for 2400 baud distribution. More info also here.
The first close-up photos of Mars were taken with an analogue TV-camera and sent to earth as a grid of numbers. Each number represented a colour so scientists painted by numbers to colourize Mars in 1965. h/t @mwichary
Frederick Hammersley, A Good Line is Hard to Beat, 1969, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA / Frederick Hammersley Foundation
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