# text archaeology

Title: Big in japan

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Title: 残酷な天使のテーゼ

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Annotation: neuro text

Title: Nintendo Famicom user manual manga

Category: print

Content: Nintendo Famicom user manual in manga format.

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Title: ????NIFTY-Serve

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Content: A melancholic song written for NIFTY Serve, a telecommunications services in Japan active from 1987 to 2006. The lyrics in Japanese goes: 真夜中すぎに目が醒めて 君のくれたメ～ル読み返す まだ見ぬ　その笑顔 僕の中で膨らむ 夢はモデムに託すもの ハ～ドディスクは愛のＬＯＧだらけ ふたりを　つないでる 赤いモジュラ～ケ～ブル チャットしていたい　Ａｈ－ 君と朝が来るまで あふれる文字　時を止める 燃えるハ～ト抑えきれずに 悲しみの　NIFTY-Serve 逢いたいけれど　君の 住む街はとても遠く 悲しみの　NIFTY-Serve PAGE 送るよ　今日も スクラコ～ドは　ふたりのイニシャルさ チャットしていたい　Ａｈ－ 空が白くなるまで ながれる文字　時を止める 燃える課金払いきれずに 悲しみの　NIFTY-Serve スラユ～しても　君は 知らないだれかとト～ク 悲しみの　NIFTY-Serve ダイヤルするよ　今日も 君のハ～トは　Host cleard the call NIFTY-Serve 逢いたいけれど　君の 住む街はとても遠く 悲しみの　NIFTY-Serve ダイヤルするよ　今日も 君のハ～トは　Host cleard the call The auto-translation goes: I woke up after midnight and read back the mail you gave me The smile I haven't seen yet swells in me Dreams are left to the modem Her hard disk is full of love LOG She connects the two with a red modular I want to chat Ah- until the morning comes with you Overflowing characters Stop the time Burning hearts I can't control NIFTY-Serve of sadness I want to meet you, but the city you live in is very far away I'll send you the NIFTY-Serve PAGE of sadness. I want to chat Ah-until the sky turns white Characters that flow Stop time Burning charges I can't pay Sadness NIFTY-Serve Surayu-But you don't know who you are Sadness NIFTY-Serve I'll dial you today Your heart is Host cleared the call NIFTY-Serve I want to meet you, but the city you live in is very far away Sadness NIFTY-Serve I'll dial you today Your heart is Host cleared the call

Annotation: writing text in the Nifty serve network, textual networks

Title: L’aventurier

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Title: neuromancer

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Content: Chiba city blues, razor girl, console cowboy, and the matrix.

Annotation: text is the matrix; sadie plant writing on zeros and ones, text, textile, matrix, networked text, annotation as peripheral text but can be potentially subversive.

Title: toshiba msx advertisement in 1985

Category: video

Content: Advertisement featuring kanji input.

Annotation: advertisement of a text processor

Title: timothy leary in japan

Category: video

Content: Timothy Leary interviewed in japan. watch with caution.

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Title: NES Longplay [918] America Daitouryou Senkyo

Category: game

Content: A longplay of an NES game of the American presidential election.

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Title: Artificial intelligence on the Commodore 64 : make your micro think

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Title: yaruo text

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Title: Afternoon yaruo time

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Title: AA/ASCIIART archive

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Annotation: ASCII text

Title: Lolicore music archive

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Title: Oki wiredot printer

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Annotation: wire controlled dot matrix printer

Title: Pyuuta

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Title: Pyuuta text

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Title: Pyuuta text color

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Title: Recursion monk text

Category: text, mathematics, anecdote

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Title: Text flip demo

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Content: Graphical approach to manipulating textual glyphs.

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Title: Wang Code Mouse Keyboard 王码键字通

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Content: 单手打字的“王码打字微电脑”——王码键字通 "Wang Code Typing Microcomputer" for One-handed Typing - Wang Code Mouse Keyboard

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Title: F Basic Yuxing

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Title: 首届儿童中华学习机表演赛北京赛区剪影 Photos From The First China Educational Computer Demo Competition In Beijing

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Title: 首届儿童中华学习机表演赛北京赛区剪影 Photos From The First China Educational Computer Demo Competition In Beijing

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Title: 首届儿童中华学习机表演赛北京赛区剪影 Photos From The First China Educational Computer Demo Competition In Beijing

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Title: 首届儿童中华学习机表演赛北京赛区剪影 Photos From The First China Educational Computer Demo Competition In Beijing

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Title: Cover from China Educational Computer Magazine, July 1990

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Title: Illustration from China Educational Computer Magazine

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Title: Newspaper Clip Five Institutes To Host Children’s China Education Computer Demo Contest

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Content: Transcript in Chinese Auto-translation in English The Ministry of Machinery and Electronics, the Ministry of Health, the State Science and Technology Commission, the China Association for Science and Technology, and the All-China Women's Federation entrusted the China Learning Machine Popularization Association to hold the "Children's Chinese Learning Machine Exhibition Competition" in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and regions on the eve of "June 1". Since the mid-1980s, 110,000 Chinese Educational Computers have entered primary and secondary schools, families and some social groups. In the summer camps, winter camps and some activities held every year, various competitions of Chinese learning machines are indispensable. The age limit for participating in this exhibition competition is 3 to 8 years old. The content of the demo competition is based on educational software, and examines the keystroke method, boot sequence, input speed, etc. The judges will rate according to the age group. The performance time in Beijing is scheduled for May 27.

Annotation: Institutional support and organization for the CEC computer models and computer literacy for children held before the International Children’s Day. Rubric based exam-like competition that cover computer skills that crucially deals with being capable with using text in the computer system: keyboard striking, input speed. The software the competition was using were referred to as “intellectually beneficial software”(????). Note the red ribbon attire worn by a participating child in the photograph. Certainly, there are performative and demonstrative aspects to the event. It is critically and culturally worth to explore the differences between CEC demo competitions, and its Western “counterparts”: live coding and demoscene. It is jawbreaking to draw such a comparison, as live coding and demoscene derive from much less bureaucratic contexts that lean towards artistry and creative expression. To begin with, I argue that based on my personal experience and archival research, the computer literacy project embodied in the lineage that CEC is in, had hinted the vibes of rigorosity and elitism (selection and problem solving agendas as opposed to exploration open to all and open minded: info olympiads, problem sets in magazines). There is a vital potential to subvert this particular version of history of computer literacy.

Title: Advertisement of Weifang Computer Company’s CCC (Computers, Communication, Chinese Character Processing) agenda featured in China Educational Magazine

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Title: Advertisement of Weifang Computer Company’s CCC (Computers, Communication, Chinese Character Processing) agenda featured in China Educational Magazine

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Title: Visualization of a trie structure to store Chinese glyphs in a patent document

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Title: An aesthetical and painterly visualization of text varying in stroke width

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Title: 计算机由娃娃抓起 Computer literacy project implemented for children in China

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Title: Cover image from 中华学习机 90/08 - (Zhōnghuá xuéxí jī / CEC-I) - China Educational computer - 中国中华学习机普及协会会刊

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Title: 中华学习机中西文字处理系统CWS ( Chinese Word Star ) V1.0 for AppleII & CEC-I

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Content: CWS ( Chinese Word Star ) is a Chinese & English word processing system based on Apple II and CEC ( China Educational Computer , a series of clones of Apple II+ / IIe with onboard Chinese ROM & LIB and other enhancements , 1987 - 1993 ). It provides Chinese character processing functions similar to and stronger than Wordstar for the above models, including rich editing shortcut keys, special effects of text printing, Chinese tabulation function, etc. With the help of CWS, the low-end 8-bit microcomputer systems such as Apple II and CEC finally have the most important productivity tool software for word processing.

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Title: Heart hard drive illustration from NIFTY-Serve Song

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Title: 文字が流れるデジタルＬＥＤ看板

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