Tag Archives: canada

PETSCII cat by Emily Pixels, via. Hi-res, with custom colours.

An interactive videotex art work, part of A Hummer’s campaign to run for mayor of Toronto, 1982. A Hummer ended up at 2nd place with 10% of the votes. More here.

ASCII Winamp skin by Jerm123321, 2005.

ANSI art by Judas.

tinkeringnightowl:

ANSI art I did for the company BBS where I used to work at in 1996. I really enjoyed doing that font which explains why I’ve used it on a few different pieces.

Atlantis BBS ad by Eight Ball of iCE, 1993.

Nocturnal Illusions BBS ad. Probably 1990s?

Keyboard layouts for the APL programming language, which uses symbols instead of words. It was based on EBCDIC and APL had its own set of symbols which in the 1960s was tricky for many screens, printers and platforms to deal with. Nowadays Unicode mostly supports it.

From Hotline, an exhibition by Dominique Pétrin, 2014.