Mike D – Make It Stop. ASCII-video with not ye standard ASCII-font. Otherwise intentionally lazy, I suppose…
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From NBC Teletext, 1983. Preserved by AssunaYuuki at the Teletext Player.
Pages from ExtraVision, CBS’s teletext service in the USA. These pages are from 1985-1989 and were provided by AssunaYuuki at the Teletext Player.
Glitched pages from the American teletext ExtraVision, preserved from tapes from 1985-1989 by AssunaYuuki for the Teletext Player. This is not textmode but vector graphics, which is why the glitches are quite dramatic and basically works of art.
American teletext preservation is very active these days, see the U.S Teletext Archive and the Teletext Discord for more.
Zer0day by hOlocaust, 2026.
BBS-ad for The Game Gallery, 1985. According to defacto2.net, it is the oldest ANSI BBS ad that has been preseved.
Textual Paint is a textmode version of MS Paint that runs in the terminal. Made by Isaiah Odhner.
Star Wars PETSCII by Daniel Browning in People’s Computers #1, 1978. We’ve previously posted the front cover, but this is from the article inside. Browning explains how to plan the image on paper, and then use his PET-software GRAPHIX-I or GRAPHIX-II.
ANSI by Jaydee (aka Cyre), 1995-1996.