xterm-16color
my very first nft release, xterm-16color, is a meta-heavy collection of tokens that i spent about 6 weeks creating. they were released in april '21
i was not aware of the environmental impact ethereum had back then, but shortly after this release i found out about this aspect when i discovered hicetnunc and tezos nfts
i switched over to releasing artworks on tezos instead, but now that ethereum has resolved the environmental impact i'm happy to list the remaining tokens again and explore the possibility of doing another ethereum release in the future
i have included images of all of the tokens below as well as their descriptions below in chronological order
from the collections opensea page:
8950 4e47 0d0a 1a0a 0000 000d 4948 4452 0000 0004 0000 0004 0802 0000 0026 9309 2900 0000 2449 4441 5408 5b25 8881 0d00 000c c19c ee34 9f59 1742 0909 59c6 bf36 ec24 d0e5 59da 0785 0e7a 5714 35be 95e5 4800 0000 0049 454e 44ae 4260 82
A personal computing journey.
40 years of computing history, distilled into 16 pixels; from before graphics existed, through their inception, and finally, to a glimpse of what lies ahead.
We stop at important milestones and take a moment to reflect on what was once the cutting edge.
Each pixel was hand-crafted using technology available from the associated era. They were then embedded into companion pieces, using their raw data, in a way that embodies the artists personal experience at the time.
They have also been encoded into each NFTs metadata, and are accompanied with details of the hardware required to exhibit them as the artist intends, along with 1 of 17 clues to their true identity.
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some info about the tokens in the collection:
0x00.bas
0x31, 0x30, 0x20, 0x50, 0x52, 0x49, 0x4e, 0x54, 0x20, 0x43, 0x48, 0x52, 0x24, 0x28, 0x30, 0x29, 0x0a, 0x32, 0x30, 0x20, 0x47, 0x4f, 0x54, 0x4f, 0x20, 0x31, 0x30, 0x0a
Represents the time before; the void, null, the absence of pixels, and the beautiful simplicity behind the endless loop that is our shared existence.
A BASIC file created for a 5150 IBM PC, running PC-DOS 1.0, on a 320x200 resolution CGA display, with an Intel 8008 @ 4.77 MHz, 64kb of RAM, and a single 160kb 5.25" floppy drive.
Executing the file will print nulls to the screen in a loop.
Reserved for artist, not for sale.
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0x01.logo
PU FD 1 PD FD 248 RT 90 FD 1 RT 90 REPEAT 159 [ FD 250 LT 90 FD 1 LT 90 FD 250 RT 90 FD 1 RT 90 ] FD 250 HT FULLSCREEN
Generates a single black (0x000000) pixel.
A file containing Logo commands created for a Revision B IBM PC running PC-DOS 2.0 and IBM Logo 1.0, attached to a CGA display set to show 320x250 dots in Logo, on an Intel 8008 @ 4.77 MHz with 640kb of RAM and an 8087 math co-processor, with 2x 160kb 5.25" floppy drives, a 300bps Hayes Smartmodem and a 1 megabit-per-second Orchid Technology PCNet LAN card.
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0x02.tga
00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 10 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 52 55 45 56 49 53 49 4f 4e 2d 58 46 49 4c 45 2e 00 0a
A single green (0x008000) pixel.
Represents television and its contribution to the progression of computer graphics over time.
A TGA file created for an IBM compatible Compaq Deskpro model 1, running an Intel 8086 processor @ 7.14Mhz, with 1MB of RAM, 2x floppy disk drives, and a 10MB hard drive, a TARGA 16 video card attached to a compatible display at 512x482 resolution, and a 1200bps Hayes Smartmodem 1200 running Truevision Image Processing Software (TIPS) on MS-DOS 2.11
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0x03.bmp
42 4d 3c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 36 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 12 0b 00 00 12 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42 00 00 00 00
A single olive (0x808000) pixel.
Represents numbers and the unique ways we each interpret the various patterns they make.
A BMP file created for Windows 1.01 on an IBM PC 5170 AT, running an Intel 80286 processor @ 8 Mhz and 80287 maths coprocessor, 8MB of RAM, a 20MB hard disk drive, and 2x 1.2MB 5.25" floppy disk drives, with a 256Kb IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter connected to a compatible display set at 640x350, with a Hayes Smartmodem at 2400bps
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0x04.ico
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A single red (0x800000) pixel.
Represents the frustration that comes from being confused by something you really want to understand.
An ICO file created for a Toshiba T3100, running on an Intel 80286 @ 8 Mhz, with a built in 640x400 gas plasma display, running MS-DOS 2.11 and Windows 1.02, with a 1200 bps modem, 5MB of RAM and a 10MB hard disk drive
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0x05.gif
47 49 46 38 37 61 01 00 01 00 f0 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 21 f9 04 00 00 00 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 02 02 44 01 00 3b 0a
A single blue (0x000080) pixel.
Represents the feeling you get when you finally start to understand something.
A GIF file for a Macintosh II running Apple Macintosh System Software Update 5.0 on a Motorola 68020 CPU @ 16 MHz with 8MB of RAM, a 40MB hard drive, and a 13" AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor at 640x480, with the optional 1200bps Apple Personal Modem.
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0x06.tiff
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A single purple (0x800080) pixel.
Represents the ability to organise thoughts into concepts.
A TIFF file for an IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2) with a 32-bit Intel 80386DX @ 25 MHz and 16 MHz 80387 maths coprocessor, 8MB of RAM, with an IBM PS/2 VGA Display Adapter at 1024x768, a 70MB ESDI hard drive, a 3.5" 1440 KB Mitsubishi floppy drive, a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 1.0 and a 9600bps Hayes Smartmodem, connected to an HP ScanJet scanner, running MS-DOS 3.31 and Windows/386 2.01
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0x07.xpm
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A single teal (0x008080) pixel.
Represents the ability to turn concepts into code.
An XPM (v1) file for a Toshiba T3200SX/120 portable computer, with an Intel 80386SX @ 16 MHz, the 120 MB hard drive upgrade, 13 MB of RAM, a 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive, the optional hayes compatible modem, a TD80 external tape drive, the Expansion chassis and Expansion interface card, running X11R4 on top of any compatible Unix distribution (e.g. System V) connected to an external VGA color monitor set to 640x480
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0x08.ps
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A single silver (#0c0c0c) pixel.
Represents the ability to manipulate pixels.
A PostScript file for the NeXTcube running on a Motorola 68040 @ 25 MHz with 64MB of RAM, a 2.88MB floppy drive and a 1.4GB SCSI hard drive connected to a NeXT MegaPixel Display at 1120x832 resolution, with an external ZyXel 9600bps modem
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0x09.pbm
01010000 00110110 00001010 00110001 00001010 00110001 00001010 00110010 00110101 00110101 00001010 10000000 10000000 10000000
A single grey (#808080) pixel.
Represents the ability to make money from software.
Portable bitmap file for an Apple Powerbook 170 with a 640x400 display, the optional 2400bps modem addon in the expansion port, 8MB of RAM, an 80MB hard disk drive, on a Motorola 68030 CPU and Motorola 68882 FPU, both at 25 MHz, running System 7, with PhotoShop 2.0 and a PBM plugin
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0x0a.jpg
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A bright red (#ff0000) pixel.
Represents the feeling you get when you just can't quite figure out the problem you're trying to solve.
A JPEG for a Dell 486DX2 @ 50MHz, with a 230MB hard disk drive, a floppy drive, 16MB of memory, a 14" 1024x768 display, and an external SupraFAX 14,400bps modem
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0x0b.psd
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A bright green (#00ff00) pixel.
Represents the feeling you get when you finally figure out a problem you've been stuck on.
Created for PhotoShop 2.5 on a Compaq Deskpro 5/60M with 24MB of RAM, a 510MB hard disk drive, an Intel Pentium processor @ 60MHz running Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and a 1MB Diamond Multimedia graphics card connected to a 19" monitor set to 1280x1024 (16 bit)
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0x0c.png
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A bright blue (#0000ff) pixel.
Represents the ability to recover from failure.
Created for a Compaq Deskpro XL, on an Intel Pentium processor @ 90MHz, with 32MB of RAM, a 1GB SCSI hard disk drive, an internal SCSI HP SureStore CD-Writer, running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95, with a 2MB Matrox Millennium PCI Graphics Card connected to an Energy Star certified 17" NEC 1280x1024 CRT display, and an external US Robotics Sportster 28,800bps V.34 data/fax modem
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0x0d.svg
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A bright yellow (0xffff00) pixel.
Represents trying something new and unexpectedly loving it.
Created for an Intel Pentium 3 600, 384MB of RAM, with a 13.5GB hard disk drive, a Microsoft Intellimouse, an internal DVD-ROM drive, and an NVidia GeForce 256 connected to a Sony CDP-E500 21" CRT Monitor, set to 2048 x 1536, with an external iomega ZIP drive and a 56kbps US Robotics modem running Windows '98
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0x0e.html
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A single magenta (#ff00ff) pixel.
Represents knowing what you want to do, and diving headfirst into it.
An encoded data-uri inside an HTML page for Firefox on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU, with a 750GB Seagate Barracuda Hard drive, a 1 GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2, a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 and 4GB of RAM, connected to a 2048 x 1536 display running Windows Vista, with an ethernet cable connected directly to an ADSL modem
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0x0f.webp
524946463c00 0000 5745 425056503820 3000 0000 d001009d012a 0100 0100 02003425a002 74ba 01f8 0003b000fef0 45df ff1b b7186fc177ff 238f e471 fc8e3ff90c80 0000
A single teal (0x00ffff) pixel.
Represents time moving faster when you're in the zone.
A WebP file for a Dell XPS 15 with 1080p display, 16GB of RAM, and a 2.2GHz Intel Core i7 processor, a 1TB 5,400rpm hard drive, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q GPU with 4GB of VRAM, running Ubuntu Linux 10.04, connected to any router via WiFi
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0x10.flif
01000110 01001100 01001001 01000110 00110100 00110001 00000000 00000000 00000000 10011111 11100011 00110010 10110001 10010000 00100010 10100000 01001111 10110111 01010001 01111101 11111111 00100000
A single white (#ffffff) pixel.
Represents the fact that we now live in a world where there is more metadata than actual data.
A FLIF file for a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with a 2,7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD drive running MacOS
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0x11.jxl
00: ff0a 0010 b012 0810 ........ 08: 1000 1c00 4b12 8502 ....K... 10: 8524 0c .$.
A blank canvas. The future, transparency, and the great unknown; filled with endless possibility.
An empty JPEG-XL file created for any device that can render it, connected to a 4K (3840x2160) or better display.
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i hope you enjoyed the journey, you can see the full collection on opensea
