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SOF2B 12291 120573, SOF2A 12289 100573, SOF1C 12285 060573 and SOF2C 12302 230573 by Jacques Palumbo, ca 1973-1975.

Stills from Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti, 1979 or 1980. The Telidon System was a videotex service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Video here. Post updated in 2024.

Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1987. More details on Wikipedia.

More typewriter animations

After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit by Shaunt Basmajian, 1989. He was stabbed while driving a taxi, and according to this Wikipedia page he died the year after from complications. But the page states that he was stabbed in 1986…

By Derek Beaulieu

Typewriter works by Steve McCaffery, made between 1967-75). Learn more.

Rythmetic by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, 1956. Mathemagical text art poetry.

Trailer for the game ALTCODE by FrankieSmileShow (Francis Coulombe), 2011. Uses a custom font for what looks like a standard ASCII character set. The game seems to be unavailable (2024) so we’re making the video available here, just in case: