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

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.

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undomiel

That's awesome.

Someone has too much time on their hands obviously, though.

networker050184

Very cool!

Andretii

Haha this is amazing!

Next step ASCII Dolby Digital Sound

tiersten

Its quite old. The original was a flash or javascript based thing on the site that comes up in the intro.

NetAdmin2436

Yes, that's wickedly the geekiest thing ever. Who needs the trilogy DVD set when you got telnet.

May the force be with you all...

jbrown414

Be truthful, how much did you watch?

NetAdmin2436

jbrown414 wrote:

Be truthful, how much did you watch?

I could only stand about 5 mins.

Andretii

NetAdmin2436 wrote:

jbrown414 wrote:

Be truthful, how much did you watch?

I could only stand about 5 mins.

That's a lot. I stopped right when the robots started talking.

Kaminsky

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 !

Tyrant1919

I stopped when C-3PO and R2-D2 landed on Tatoine.

Slowhand

The animation ends as they rescue Leia. Now, for the big geek-points. . . who accessed through IPv6?

Kaminsky

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 !

ladiesman217

cool! but it pretty scares me.

scheistermeister

Wow that's a lot of wasted time...

TravR1

There were robots? I stopped at a galaxy far away..

astorrs

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...

scheistermeister

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/

Silentsoul

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?

Megadeth4168

Yeah, saw this years ago, it's neat but hard to sit through for more than a couple minutes.

KGhaleon

The Dark Knight WOULD make a good ASCII film. Who wants to start?

rfult001

Watched it over IPv6... That was awesome. Sorry for reviving this thread.

jibbajabba

rfult001 wrote:

Watched it over IPv6... That was awesome. Sorry for reviving this thread.

lol - nice one ...

BradleyHU

lol...smh...extra geeky