History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often tiles

Following (or, preceding) the previous post … 1. Old computers loved 8×8 fonts and they also loved 8×8 graphics. Since for many of those computers the graphics were displayed side by side without any gaps, the fonts had to waste a precious pixel or two to create some breathing room between the characters. But there was a benefit to this arrangement – you could seamlessly combine two or more tiles…