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Gaming

Play Nyancat On Your Terminal Because You Can

8:00PM January 17, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

My nerd dream came true: 1) Open your Terminal in Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or whatever the hell you are running your toaster on. 2) Type telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu. 3. Enjoy an endless nyancat loop in glorious ASCII. More »


Online

Trololo As ASCII Art Is A Thing Of Perverse Beauty

4:52PM April 1, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Dear internet, please give up on April Fools’ jokes. YouTube’s is untoppable: A “text-only mode” that renders videos as coloured ASCII art. Clever, gorgeous, perverse. More »


Online

Watch Any Vimeo Video In Freaky ASCII-O-Vision

11:20AM January 20, 2010 | Brian Barrett

I have no idea how this works, but I do know that it’s one of the strangest, coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Search for any Vimeo video on ASCIImeo, and it’ll play back to you as text. More »


Geek Out

Man Blowing A Bubble: An ASCII Really-Short Film

11:44AM January 2, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Before the internet, there were typewriters. And before typewriters, there were movies. And before movies, there was chewing gum. And before chewing gum, there were only paleolithic caveman. Is this dude a Neanderthal chewing gum in a typewriter movie? Maaaybe. More »


I <3 You

12:20PM December 17, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

You want ASCII paintings? We got ASCII paintings! You want ASCII furniture? We got ASCII furniture! You want ASCII jewellery? Becky Stern’s got it for you: The I <3 You necklace. More »


ASCII Art, Circa 1934

6:00AM December 4, 2009 | John Herrman

And so a timeless truth is revealed: If you put enough nerds in front of a set of lettered keys, one of them will produce awkward art, eventually. More »


Computing

Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

6:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my.

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ASCII Art, Since 1948

9:10AM December 18, 2008 | John Mahoney

Before there were ASCII portraits of Dwight [PDF] , there was this: “Keyboard Art,” from Popular Mechanics, October 1948.

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ACSII art goes old school

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10:35AM August 8, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

ASCII has been doing the rounds online since the first acoustic coupler connected to a BBS. But what about going seriously old school? Melbournian Andrew MacRae has been creating ASCII art 60s style with a couple of typewriters: 1965 Olympia SG3 and a 1968 Hermes 3000.

It’s a great blog of his work from over the past year and a half, and you can see the complexity develop over that time. Nods to Star Wars, and even one for the hoons, makes this a must link for mine.

See his art in this blog, and his Live Journal is over here. -Seamus Byrne [via Boing Boing] More »