The year: 1977.  The hardware: KIM-1.  The application: radioteletype.

That was the state of the art in personal computers [1] and
the output was six 7-segment displays.  And so the author
made up a character set very similar to the example posted.
The idea was to see it work, not to present it to the general
public.

And, like Graffitti on the Palm Pilot, you could read it
once you got used to it.

[1] This is a lie because the Apple II was out.
[?] There also was a 3x5 dot-matrix character set someone
    made up, I think for the VIC-20, to get more characters
    on the screen.  Same idea.

Barry

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