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The Geekiest Thing You've EVER Seen. . . Guaranteed

SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
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This was shown to me by my roommate and friend, Technomancer. It is quite possibly the GEEKIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!

Open your favorite command-line environment and telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl

If you don't think this is simultaneaously the most outrageously nerdy and awesome thing you've ever seen. . . then we need to get together for beers TONIGHT; you obvously don't drink nearly enough. icon_lol.gif
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    undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    That's awesome.

    Someone has too much time on their hands obviously, though. :)
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    networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    Very cool!
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    AndretiiAndretii Member Posts: 210
    Haha this is amazing!

    Next step ASCII Dolby Digital Sound icon_rolleyes.gif
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    Its quite old. The original was a flash or javascript based thing on the site that comes up in the intro.
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    NetAdmin2436NetAdmin2436 Member Posts: 1,076
    Yes, that's wickedly the geekiest thing ever. Who needs the trilogy DVD set when you got telnet.

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    jbrown414jbrown414 Member Posts: 230
    Be truthful, how much did you watch? :D
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    NetAdmin2436NetAdmin2436 Member Posts: 1,076
    jbrown414 wrote:
    Be truthful, how much did you watch? :D

    I could only stand about 5 mins. icon_lol.gif
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    AndretiiAndretii Member Posts: 210
    NetAdmin2436 wrote:
    jbrown414 wrote:
    Be truthful, how much did you watch? :D

    I could only stand about 5 mins. icon_lol.gif

    That's a lot. I stopped right when the robots started talking. icon_cool.gif
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    KaminskyKaminsky Member Posts: 1,235
    Seeing as I started at a time when there was no web or web browsers and all there was telnet and ftp and usenet to get to something that might be interesting or useful, I have got to say that that is extremely good. (downloading a pron picture and reassembling the various parts of the image could take a whole day back then)

    Must have taken absolutely ages to do... just imagine how long.. and the absolute bastion of nerdiness I have ever seen. (discounting the guy with a zx81 hooked up to external drives and dot matrix printers and wires running all over the place covering about 10 square feet of space with the little black zx81 sitting 4 in by 3 in right in the centre.


    Glad I saw this for my 500th post. Thanks for posting that.

    Enough was enough at the robot auction for me though. I live in wonder that they might have done the entire film !
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    Tyrant1919Tyrant1919 Member Posts: 519 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I stopped when C-3PO and R2-D2 landed on Tatoine.
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    SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    The animation ends as they rescue Leia. Now, for the big geek-points. . . who accessed through IPv6? icon_lol.gif
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    KaminskyKaminsky Member Posts: 1,235
    Watched again and I think you, in 2008, have found THE ultimate geek....

    What is more worrying is that, as you watch it, you just know the guy has some serious blisters !
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    ladiesman217ladiesman217 Member Posts: 416
    cool! but it pretty scares me.
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    scheistermeisterscheistermeister Member Posts: 748 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Wow that's a lot of wasted time...
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    TravR1TravR1 Member Posts: 332
    There were robots? I stopped at a galaxy far away..
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    astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    TravR1 wrote:
    There were robots? I stopped at a galaxy far away..
    Oh yes, there were spaceship battles, etc too. I left it running and came back almost 10 minutes later, still running...
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    scheistermeisterscheistermeister Member Posts: 748 ■□□□□□□□□□
    astorrs wrote:
    TravR1 wrote:
    There were robots? I stopped at a galaxy far away..
    Oh yes, there were spaceship battles, etc too. I left it running and came back almost 10 minutes later, still running...

    I left it running as well and it said connection lost before the first hour and a half of The Dark Knight.

    Found this too

    http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
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    SilentsoulSilentsoul Member Posts: 260
    I can die happy now that I have seen a Jawa sand crawler in ASCII Art. Now i just want to see Space balls ASCII art, the part when the "comb the desert" Any Takers?
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    Megadeth4168Megadeth4168 Member Posts: 2,157
    Yeah, saw this years ago, it's neat but hard to sit through for more than a couple minutes.
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    KGhaleonKGhaleon Member Posts: 1,346 ■■■■□□□□□□
    The Dark Knight WOULD make a good ASCII film. Who wants to start? :D
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    rfult001rfult001 Member Posts: 407
    Watched it over IPv6... That was awesome. Sorry for reviving this thread.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    rfult001 wrote:
    Watched it over IPv6... That was awesome. Sorry for reviving this thread.

    lol - nice one ...
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    BradleyHUBradleyHU Member Posts: 918 ■■■■□□□□□□
    lol...smh...extra geeky
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