Anyone heard about that telnet server at towel.blinkenlights.nl?

[dragos240]

Yes probably. I just searched it, and, most people thought it was an easter egg in windows XP. *facepalm*. Here's a funny comment from one of the many youtube videos on this:
"You r so stuped! It only werks on XP!" Learn to spell. Have any of you run across a similar situation.

[RiceMonster]

Peoples ideas of what it is aside, it's really cool. I actually watched the whole thing and it wasn't the whole movie, though. Yes, I was actually bored enough to watch all of ascii starwars.

[steveneddy]

Back in the day that was actually pretty cool.

Actually, I think it's still pretty cool.

But, then again, I'm old.

(it's still cool)

[zmjjmz]

Rule 33 of the internet is if there's a comment section, a retard will have posted there.

[dragos240]

Don't go a step ahead or else you'll be banned here.

[blatestbla]

I once visited a telnet site along the same lines, except it showed a looping clip (in ASCII) of the bullet dodging scene from the first Matrix film. Can't seem to find it anymore.

(on another note - I really should man up and create a proper account to post here. :) )

[diesch]

Back in the day that was actually pretty cool.

Actually, I think it's still pretty cool.

But, then again, I'm old.

(it's still cool)

Maybe you want to use mplayer with the "aa" video output to watch your movies, like



mplayer -vo aa dvd://1


;-)

[3rdalbum]

Has anyone here NOT heard of towel.blinkenlights.nl? :-D

[dragos240]

My mom and anyone who has no interest in computers or the internet.

[Brunellus]

Last world cup, some genius managed to have an ASCII-fied feed of the German TV coverage of all the matches. I had that running on my desktop at work. good times, via telnet.

[yabbadabbadont]

Many years ago, I remember seeing a site that showed "Deep Throat" in ASCII art. Didn't have quite the same impact as the original...


And by the way, you'll get better output if you use libcaca instead of libaa for output:
mplayer -vo caca dvd://1

[steveneddy]

Many years ago, I remember seeing a site that showed "Deep Throat" in ASCII art. Didn't have quite the same impact as the original...


And by the way, you'll get better output if you use libcaca instead of libaa for output:
mplayer -vo caca dvd://1

So, caca is better than aa?

[dragos240]

aa is just text rendering. caca is text rendering with color!

[yabbadabbadont]

aa is just text rendering. caca is text rendering with color!

I believe that steveneddy was being droll... ;)

(at least I got a chuckle out of his reply :D)

[steveneddy]

I believe that steveneddy was being droll... ;)

(at least I got a chuckle out of his reply :D)

Ah - after these many years you know me well.

I made a joke and learned something at the same time.

:popcorn: