BBS-ad for The Game Gallery, 1985. According to defacto2.net, it is the oldest ANSI BBS ad that has been preseved.
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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.
By Sonya Rapoport. Unknown year, but looks like something from the 1980’s Shoe Field exhibition that we’ve posted about before.
After complaints about Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”. via publicdomainreview
Graffiti-inspired ANSI, PETSCII and XBIN works by Smooth, 2022. Extra large resolution on some of these (160 chars wide).
Alpha-blox, a font by American Type Founders, 1944. via
