Let’s exult in the excellent transcendence of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope across barriers of media. It’s on telnet, all animated in ASCII characters. You can watch it from your command line. (Instructions follow.)
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|oo ) We're doomed!
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In Windows:
- Click the Start menu
- Click Run…
- Type
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nland hit Enter - Enjoy
If you’re really lazy, you can actually just go to (dumb ol’) Youtube and find a video file of the animation.
Clearly, it took a long, long time to make this animation. Take that into account about half an hour into the movie, when it stops.
Ahh I couldn’t get it to work at work…
So, I did it the youtube way out of pure curiousity… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDZxjf7f0yQ&feature=related
Pretty cool to at least see it. I’ll have to try it at home!