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A website to create your own teletext graphics while listening to suitable teletext muzak. Made by Matt Round, 2013. Try it out here.

Some of the first typewriters in the world, sort of, made by Peter Mitterhofer 1864-1869.

The pterotype by John Pratt, 1865-66. via

typewriter-workshop:

His nimble fingers are the keybars of his typewriter. :-)

(via Modern Mechanix)

Typewriter gloves, 1935.

The Monotype (1890) that seems to have been used for text graphics.

Haku – The Day (2014). Music video by Koki Ibukuro that combines Japanese Shift-JIS ASCII art with video footage. It combines image-to-ascii conversions with what looks like coded and manual graphics. Ibukuro developed a tool to convert video to proportional font shift-JIS ASCII.

(this post was updated with new links 2024-01-09)

Teletext adaptors for the Amstrad CPC, via.

Kana keyboard for the Commodore PET, from Wikipedia.