When Fans GO Toooooo Far!!

^whitey^ · 03-03-2002 3:04pm #1

Found This on another site. This must have taken aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to do.Its the whole Star Wars movie...all in ACSII :eek: (kinda like the SMS cartoons you get on nokia phones)

Start > Run > Telnet > open towel.blinkenlights.nl

Have fun

azezil · 03-03-2002 3:16pm

dear god! they're are people out there even worse than me!!!

cool btw :cool:

^whitey^ · 03-03-2002 3:20pm

If anyone actually does watch all of it, come back here and tell us how long it goes on for.

Pepe LeFrits · 03-03-2002 4:37pm

lol, oh dear

Ruaidhri · 03-03-2002 4:52pm

man that is SCARY..i'll find out tomorrow morning how long it is..i'm not wasting my bandwidth on that ascii stuff...still almost as good as acsii pr0n .mmmmmm</sarcasm>

^whitey^ · 03-03-2002 4:57pm

I didnt think it would take up much bandwith????its only text?????

Ruaidhri · 03-03-2002 4:59pm

like i said i dont want to waste my bandwidth....

azezil · 03-03-2002 5:04pm

Its about 20mins long, i forget what happens in that one so i can't tell ya's how far into the movie it is!

Am they've just been brought aboard the death star or somthing, i got bored n stoped looking

Slydice · 03-03-2002 10:12pm

yea saw that a while back

raised an eyebrow
closed the telnet window

Cake Fiend · 04-03-2002 3:53am

I watched it through a good while ago, it's not the whole movie (about half an hour iirc)

Bard · 04-03-2002 5:21am

the ultimate classic waste of time for the true nerd!!!

ALMOST makes me say "good work fellah" except for the extreme nerdy sadness involved in spending quite so many hours putting it together...

still, though,... eh...

jaysus

KdjaCL · 04-03-2002 6:18am

ha ha ha ha
i opened it at 8pm last night when i came into work .
and checked back on it through the night it was still on at 5am ,not sure if it looped or somfin but 9 HOURS.
what is the movie it looks good i might watch it one day ......lol
Kdja

Inspector Gadget · 04-03-2002 1:30pm

...when this sort of thing was commonplace; there were no high-resolution graphical displays (at a sane price) as there are today, before the birth of the world wide web (read: late eighties), when (OMFG do I feel old right now!) a lot of people were restricted to text-terminals, particularly DEC VTxxxs (or stuff that emulated them) that allowed for character positioning through escape sequences.

There was one that went around after the cancellation of the Star Trek TV show in 1973 (yes, I did say nineteen SEVENTY three) that had the equivalent of an episode in it... basically what I'm saying is that this stuff is FAR from new. Whether it's worth bothering with in the least, I'm not so sure...

Gadget.
P.S.> Anyone remember SiXel or ReGis? They were character-based languages as well that allowed simple terminals to render bitmap and vector graphics, respectively, on VTxxx terminals. I remember a guy who did up his signature in ReGis, which was pretty scary; then again, I know another guy who did his in PostScript... I know a lot of weird people, methinks... :eek:

buddy · 04-03-2002 1:39pm

What - I get a crappy site about hardware - has missed the boat on this one!

Bard · 04-03-2002 3:34pm

Originally posted by kdja

what is the movie it looks good i might watch it one day ......lol
Kdja

Surely you jest...

re-read the first post in this thread... : "it's the whole Star Wars movie..."

Inspector Gadget · 04-03-2002 5:23pm

Originally posted by buddy
What - I get a crappy site about hardware - has missed the boat on this one!

Look at the original post more carefully. You don't stick that address into your web browser, you throw it at your telnet client...

Gadget

KdjaCL · 04-03-2002 9:37pm

Bard
yes i jest ,i jest.......lol
Kdja

stereo_steve · 04-03-2002 10:54pm

That is fantastic! I'm looking around for other animations! There fun to watch! I didn't know things like that existed! Does anyone know of anyothers?

For those above that are having difficulty viewing it on telnet just click [URL=telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/]here[/URL]

stereo_steve · 04-03-2002 11:21pm

Speaking of nerdy fans, guess what I just found? And I think it may just top the star wars film!

Its Shakespeares "Hamlet" rewriten in Klingon! Can you imagine how long that would take? Looking up every word in the dictionary and aparently the grammer isn't the easiest!

http://services.tos.net/services/text/klingon/kli-hamlet.txt

Or perhaps you'd like "Much ado about nothing!"

http://services.tos.net/services/text/klingon/kli-ado.txt

LoGiE · 05-03-2002 3:14pm

Jesus christ..... but i can't seem to stop watchin....:D

When Fans GO Toooooo Far!!

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