Restless. Lonely. Very talented. In 1994, Eerie was just a teenager. But he was also a prolific artist, musician, programmer, writer and publisher trying to find his place in the pre-web online world. A #retrocomputing #longreads profile for the holiday weekend. breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12...

Well, happy New Year nerds! 💚 #pixelart #pixelartist #ドット絵 #1bit #monochrome #art #pixel

Until recently, I'd been off social media for quite a while; that doesn't mean I wasn't toiling away on #PETSCII ideas in the background the whole time. #C64 #Commodore64 #pixelart #textmode

Happy New Year!! 🎆🎇 - Fireworks courtesy of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen (SNES)

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026. 🥳 #teletext #pixelart #gif #animation #newyear #fireworks #bigben #london #ceefax #videotext

"Take me down to Shareware City / Where the folders are cute and the (HyperCard) Stacks are pretty" 🎶

Mistigram: this time last year, as we dropped our MIST-30 30th anniversary collection, our colleagues in @0xpizzatoe.bsky.social were celebrating along with us, sketching this seasonal ##ANSIart logo. 2025 was supposed to be their year, but wherever they went, we never forgot their kindness!

Mistigram: @pixelblip.bsky.social wishes you all a ##HappyNewYear 2026 (or else a _very_ belated Guy Fawkes Night) with this ##BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen depicting the pyrotechnic festivities in London. Here's hoping 2026 has greatness in store for all of us!

Mistigram: @bytehigh.bsky.social drew this screen of pealing Christmas bells, 'Ding and Indeed Dong', for last year's Yle ##teletext ##AdventCalendar, and it was also included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistigram: your ears burn when people gossip about you, and Frosty wants to know who's spilling the iced tea! @horsenburger.bsky.social drew this screen for the Yle ##teletext ##AdventCalendar two years ago, and it was later included in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions … What was “ANSI art”? What was a “bulletin board”? Were there ANSI comics? Heck, how do you even define "comics"? … Well, I've got some answers: breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12... #retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics

Mistigram: this ##teletext illustration of a hungry ##blackbird was jointly made by @illarterate.bsky.social and Sarah Burgess, and was included in this month's new seasonal MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistigram: @zeusii.bsky.social drew this very wintery freehand ##ANSIart illustration of ##NatsukiSasahara from ##HyperPolice as an advertisement for Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net. It was included in the frosty new MIST1225 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this garish digital ##ChristmasTree was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social to be aired on last year's Yle ##teletext ##adventcalendar. Like a fruitcake, we included it a year later in the seasonal new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace.bsky.social was shown when departing the ADVENT24 ##ANSIart ##AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire slate of daily screens, but it still offers a couple of further unshared illustrations.

skifree is a christmas game this is not a joke the trees have ornaments furthermore it has a strong christmas message that no matter what we do ultimately that evil snow monster is going to catch up and eat all of us, it's not pretty but without being gobbled up by the snowman there is no skiing 🎄

Today's the only day you can post this, get it while it's hot

And you know what? . . Merry Christmas.

All your early 80s Japanese arcade favourites, sketched out in pen and sent into the pages of GAME FREAK in 1984 by Hiroaka, member 102.

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

ANSI104.ANS, 1995-04-09 from 192.99.104.14 (FTP)

XMAS3.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)

OUT-CH5.ANS, 1996-11-22 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

%#!!XMAS.ANS, 1998-12-22 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

new Yule Log demo for PS1 out soon!

Mistigram: this ##Reindeer ##moon screen was drawn by @AtonalOsprey for last year's Yle ##teletext ##AdventCalendar, and we have also included it in the new festive MIST1225 artpack collection. On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen!

Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one last Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 ##ANSIart ##AdventCalendar.

Nothing says Holidays like an entire squad of colorful rodents holding a secret gathering in a bone-filled crypt. The Rat King is thoroughly pleased. Scheming. Unbothered. Flourishing. The Nutcracker is nowhere to be found. (Rat King sprite request made today on twitch stream!) #pixelart

thorn, a programming language to build ascii animations www.reddit.com/r/Programmin...

I got a nice Christmas card from Mike retro tech or die thank you Mike. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.

ME GRIMLOCK TRANSFORMER OF CHRISTMUS PAST It I, Optimus Prime, the Transformer of Christmas Present. The time is now. Y o u s t a n d b e f o r e U N I C R O N, T r a n s f o r m e r o f C h r i s t m a s F u t u r e. B e h o l d y o u r O b l i v i o n.

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Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's some fascinating history to untangle! Check out Part 1 of my new series, "ANSI art and webcomics"! breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12...

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Christmas Eve in New York in 1997, where it's about to become a hot time in the old town tonight for one rookie police officer: Aya Brea. This'll be a thread for the highlights of a day-by-day playthrough of Parasite Eve, where we'll be posting highlights and playing as the days pass in-game. 🧵

The 23rd day of the 2025 #ANSIArt Advent calendar from @mistfunk.bsky.social marked my final entry in the calendar, a nest of snow rabbits about to become one rabbit larger! #Art #FurryArt #TextmodeArt #Furry #Textmode

Mistigram: Cthulu found this badass image, Bruce Timm's cover artwork to Dec 1994's Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, while cruising for ADVENT25 subjects... but it was too tall (well, inadequately short and wide) to adapt to a 25-line screen. However, he couldn't stop thinking about it...

Mistigram: far from being localised entirely within anyone's kitchen, Codefenix of @conchaos.synchro.net BBS drew this striking illustration of the #AuroraBorealis for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

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Mistigram: The ##polarbear quietly calculates that whoever rolled up this ##snowman is _probably_ tastier than yet another snow cone. This screen was drawn by @thegreenherring.neocities.org for last year's Yle ##teletext ##AdventCalendar, and was included in the new MIST1225 artpack collection.

Mistigram: Last chance to get your doomscrolling quota for the rest of the year out of the way before, like Santa, you tamp it all down and kick the holidays into high gear! LDA drew this moody screen for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

Did we do the 2025 version of this yet? I'm a bit late, but yeah... 😁 #teletext #pixelart #1bit #teletextlives #ceefax #videotext #teksti-tv #tvtext

Mistigram: @illarterate.bsky.social drew this head-scratchingly silly screen for last year's Yle #teletext #AdventCalendar, and we included it in the festive new MIST1225 artpack collection which you can browse in full at the Sixteen Colors gallery via 16colo.rs/pack/mist1225

Mistigram: "I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel." This alienated scene from 1965's #ACharlieBrownChristmas was adapted by Cthulu for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

Mistigram: for the ANSI fans(i), the festive new MIST1225 artpack collection also includes a handful of #ANSIart screens, here parcelled out to fill nine cells on the screen.

Mistigram: most of the new seasonal MIST1225 artpack collection consists of #teletext screens drawn by members of our community for the annual Yle Advent Calendar, and here are some highlights in that medium.