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Computers
Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
6:00AM 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. More »
Design
ASCII Art, Since 1948
9:10AM John Mahoney | Before there were ASCII portraits of Dwight [PDF], there was this: “Keyboard Art,” from Popular Mechanics, October 1948. More »
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10:35AM 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
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ACSII art goes old school
10:35AM 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 » 