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 (DIR) Post #At3mqiughCCabSiN7o by lianna@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-04-13T14:08:14Z
       
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       Holy crap.I think I just found the single most impressive blog post I've ever seen.https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/Not only is it super elaborate, well written and sourced, it's also beautiful and impeccably styled with mostly perfectly #SemanticHTML... and it contains *practical, interactive* elements like drawing canvases and dynamic multifont charts??This would take me like more than half a year of nonstop work to put together. All for a "complementary post" to another!!Holy shit.@gdc
       
 (DIR) Post #At3uLBkmjRxEPsYaDQ by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-04-13T22:23:45Z
       
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       @lianna @gdc Ok that's a lot! Lol. Hazeltine serial terminals in the 1970s 80s had a house cursor. Certainly unrelated to the PC. I did a survey of character codes a while back.... https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/index.html
       
 (DIR) Post #At4tLwUJ4NzOZ1bY5w by gdc@typo.social
       2025-04-14T09:47:19Z
       
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       @tomjennings Hey, thanks! I also wrote about the DEL character in a separate blog post. https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/the-origins-of-del-0x7f-and-its-legacy-in-amiga-ascii-art/Your survey was quite useful in my research, and a fun read. I recommended it in the "further reading" section. I especially like how you wrote "Character codes are human codes, for surrogate machine organs." What a strange, but beautiful way to put it.
       
 (DIR) Post #At7VcgWVrab0Y3y0xc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-04-15T16:05:37Z
       
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       @gdc Id read that! Del is "ignorable" in the way a crossed out letter is on handwriting. Ink was applied to paper (holes pinched in paper); you can't take it out but you can cross it out (pinch all holes over it).Paper is a physical medium, is the difference, and so much closer to traditional media. Then there's all the different kinds of spaces... And fill characters, teleprinters can't "print" a CR as quickly as an A, the mechanism simply takes more time to move. So you send one or more non printing spaces after each CR. Etc. Letter E and S are more common than Q and Z. So in ITA2 code E and S use one metal bar moving to represent.The information about these things are not in the code space. ....