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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? - GlyphDrawing.Club -blog

blog.glyphdrawing.club
2025-04-27T18:07:32.748Z
unicode ascii retro history fonts

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There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things?

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Bob Neill’s book of typewriter art : Bob Neill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org
2021-04-21T00:20:02.000Z
art ascii ansi imported:pinboard

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emot.es - All your favorite emoticons in one place ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

emot.es
2015-07-29T21:41:42.000Z
design emoticons emoji ascii imported:pinboard

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SQL pie chart | code.openark.org

code.openark.org
2010-01-26T23:20:08.000Z
holygod insanity sql piecharts what visualization database mysql ascii art imported:pinboard

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"Shown below is a (single query) SQL-generated pie chart. I will walk through the steps towards making this happen, and conclude with what, I hope you’ll agree, are real-world, useful usage samples."

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Privateer: Ascii Sector - The Official Website

www.asciisector.net
2009-01-14T15:46:15.000Z
gaming ascii space privateer imported:pinboard

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On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org

plasmasturm.org
2008-01-30T20:03:50.000Z
paulgraham arc ascii unicode dirty imported:pinboard

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"Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."

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WikiCreole: Creole 1.0

www.wikicreole.org
2007-07-09T03:41:09.000Z
wiki markup ascii imported:pinboard

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"A common wiki markup for the wiki ohana"

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Foon.co.uk - Super Serif Brothers

www.foon.co.uk
2006-07-25T17:46:16.000Z
ascii gaming mario imported:pinboard

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"use arrows to move / collect all ‽'s to open the exit e -> E / the rest is up to you"

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Modern Mechanix - ASCII Art - 1948

blog.modernmechanix.com
2006-06-21T18:30:15.000Z
oldschool reallyoldschool ascii typewriters art imported:pinboard

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"This would be a lot of fun without a text editor. One mistake and you have to start over."

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BBS Ads Collection v1.0

mbox.bz
2006-01-28T18:49:01.000Z
oldschool bbs retro nifty amiga ascii ansi imported:pinboard

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"This is the unofficial online version of bac-v10.zip that was published with PAiN issue 10/03 (54) in Oct'2003."

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ASCII by Jason Scott: A Thousand Seven Hundred RTTY Memories

ascii.textfiles.com
2005-09-06T20:59:15.000Z
nifty cool ascii art retro oldschool rtty imported:pinboard

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"So it is with great happiness I can now announce that artscene.textfiles.com now has over 1,700 pieces of RTTY art, dating from the 50s to last decade."

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beck black tambourine

www.partizan.us
2005-03-11T22:27:41.000Z
music video ascii imported:pinboard

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Looks like a Beck video run through some funky ascii-art/aalib filters. Very cool.

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