I know a curator at the Computer History Museum I can ask – he’s not on Twitter, I’ll fire an email.
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Replying to @mwichary @WideSpacer and
Oldest I've got so far, if images with overprinting count, is this 1969 portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_computersA_7462322/196908#page/n23/mode/2up/search/%22computer+art%22 …pic.twitter.com/igL1n4O6N7
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Note that it's © Computer Portraits, so the idea was old enough to be a company by then
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FWIW, Wikipedia Teleprinter article has an image allegedly from 1962.
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Replying to @WideSpacer @mwichary and
Apparently the classic ASCII art Mona Lisa is from 1964 http://www.digitalmonalisa.com/ http://www.rostenbach.com/mona/mona.htm http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/Agent/486
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Replying to @enf @WideSpacer and
Some ASCII art boxes in the 2nd edition of The Compatible Time Sharing System: A Programmer's Guide (1965)pic.twitter.com/3x8hwu8Zpg
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I feel like that doesn't count. It was standard for typewriters. It's just normal stuff you'd print. Not decorative.
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Replying to @WideSpacer @enf and
Might not count for ASCII art, but it feels a stepping stone towards eventual semigraphics?
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Replying to @mwichary @WideSpacer and
Just saw that Wikipedia has a picture of the Alfred E. Newman output from the MAD compiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MAD-alfie-1960.jpg …
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wow, very cool!
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