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
Spread by Dorothy Yule in Upper & Lowercase Magazine Vol 2, No. 4, 1975. via
Emoticon-like characters in The Humboldt Union, Kansas, May 14, 1881. via Yesterday’s Print.
More 1800s emoticons here,
