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ASCII Art in 1939
- 8bitsrule 6y agoRTTY art started in the 1920s, used to be stored on paper tape. Some of the images shared between operators during Xmas holidays were amazing. Here's a bunch stored in the .pix format: https://rtty.com/gallery/gallery.htm https://rtty.com/gallery/gallery.htm
- Yajirobe 6y agoWow what are these comments > That guy looks like the most stereotypical hillbilly.
- t0astbread 6y agoMy favorite is the possum bone artist sibling.
- thih9 6y agoThis is actually closer to ascii art than I expected. The characters retain their monospace grid alignment. Here’s a later artist that doesn’t align the characters: https://www.wired.com/2011/07/ascii-art-typewriter/ https://www.wired.com/2011/07/ascii-art-typewriter/
- daneel_w 6y agohttps://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#/media/Fil:Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld_-_ASCII_grafik..jpg https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#/media/Fil:Dag_Ham...
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- dcassett 6y agoASCII art for a picture frame (1898) https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/02/flora-fanny-stacey-1845-1909-worlds.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/02/flora-fanny-stacey...
- Someone 6y agoAlso from 1939, more traditional ‘ascii’ art (borders, large letters, etc): https://archive.org/details/Artyping https://archive.org/details/Artyping
- mbroncano 6y agoThanks for this. It’s beautiful book, and I remember similar books laying around some old relative during my childhood.
- schoen 6y agoThis is amazing. (I wish the author could have seen figlet and aalib!)
- BlueTemplar 6y agoEmoticons p22 !
- krallja 6y agoBaudart
- kps 6y agoAre there any known example of pre-computer printer art — e.g. originally stored on paper tape for teletypes or card for accounting machines?
- daneel_w 6y agoSee my other comment in this thread - that picture came out of a teleprinter.
- pugworthy 6y agoWhen I was a kid, my dad was a HAM and we used to spend hours printing TTY art and even making some now and then. He'd get word that someone would be transmitting a picture at a certain time and frequency, then he'd set up the paper punch to record the transmission so we could replay and reprint at a later date. Local HAMs would also loan and copy the tape reels so others could have copies. Playboy centerfolds seemed the most popular thing back then with HAMs.
- banyek 6y agohttps://www.virallisetlinkit.eu/static/screenshot/original/41/741/24741.jpg https://www.virallisetlinkit.eu/static/screenshot/original/4... I think these are beautiful
- SeeManDo 6y agoDemoscene in 1939.
- bitwize 6y agoDemoscene in 1495: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo's_robot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo's_robot
- ape4 6y agoFor the pedantic, like me, "The first edition of the [ASCII] standard was published in 1963" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
- dheera 6y agoAs long as he stuck to only characters that were later deemed to be ASCII it could still considered to be ASCII art.
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- aimor 6y agoI love MAD Magazine's Typewri-toons (1962, 1965), for playing with the characters themselves. I did similar things as a kid, first on typewriters then in online forums. https://madcoversite.com/features-typewri-toons.html https://madcoversite.com/features-typewri-toons.html
- OJFord 6y agoWhat a bizarrely great site. Seems it was pretty active between late 2005 and 2013, but nothing since; a shame, and quite surprising it's still around - luck of the draw that they chose a free maintenance-less platform that stuck around (probably Wordpress) I suppose.
- O1111OOO 6y ago> What a bizarrely great site. I was organizing a ton of old saved files (including saved webpages) from many years back (some over a decade old). One of the pages I had saved was "X-Ray Solves Secret of Life (Jun, 1939)" : http://blog.modernmechanix.com/x-ray-solves-secret-of-life/ http://blog.modernmechanix.com/x-ray-solves-secret-of-life/ (interesting read on what can happen with emerging tech). I checked to see if the site still existed (lots of my old saved files point to dead domains or interestingly, domains that have been repurposed for completely different businesses unrelated to their original content). As I crawled around the site, my impressions were exactly like yours. Treasure trove of interesting historical info! I came across the ASCII article and decided to post. I love ASCII art but also wanted to point HN users to the site. > luck of the draw that they chose a free maintenance-less platform I was curious about this too. Just checked and it's running Wordpress 5.2 (released 07may2019). Some of the other backend tech is a little dated... side note: Years ago, I was always curious if I should have been saving webpages as MHT or MAFF files. Now that both of these containers are dead, it turned out that Mozilla's MAFF was the better solution. It's just a compressed format, easy to unzip and all the pages were as viewable as the originals. For MHT files, I needed Pale Moon running with an MHT extension (used this to resave pages as "html complete").
- BlueTemplar 6y agoSo, is there really no standard way to save a web page as a single page any more ? (Some browser extensions seem to be able to, but they feel kind of hacky...) I swear, browsers have gone downhill since the days of Opera 12...
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- venamresm__ 6y agoAscii art is still active in the demo scene, check out: https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/
- einpoklum 6y agoI like the poster's username :-) I also like how the artist is actually an industrial worker, in a mill - and this echoes how ASCII artists in later decades have some kind of technical day job too.