Tag Archives: 1995

Amiga ASCII by Desoto, 1995-1996.

Amiga ASCII by Mortimer Twang, 1995. From several collies released that year.

The Payam Network, Iran’s teletext service, was launched in 1995. It was in English at first, but after creating new fonts, software and decoders, it was launched in Farsi three years later. It was shut down in 2015, according to this.

The ZZT-game Mario Bros by Bill Meeks, 1995. via worldsofzzt

From ASCII-demo by Paranoids. MS-demo, 1995.

INTERNET ANSI by MJBDiver, 1995.

Kermit was a computer communication project at Columbia University 1981-2011. This image is from the Kermit 95 Gallery:

This is an ancient Heath-19 terminal “graphics” demo. It looks a bit rough in Lucida Console, but that’s only because it does not contain the Heath-19 special graphics characters, which were not added to Unicode until Unicode 3.1, and will take some time to find their way into Unicode fonts such as Lucida Console and Courier New.

Update 2024-01-15: The project is still going and the website has moved to https://www.kermitproject.org

Teletex pages from Channel 4 and ITV (1995), via.

Unauthorised Access claims to have been the UK’s biggest BBS for hacking research. It was run by Ashley Irons, who was interviewed here. via textfiles.com

Established in 1990 as a computer underground information distribution site, UABBS is the largest and most established system of its kind in the U.K.