Star Wars on telnet.

March 1, 2002 9:46 AM

Star Wars on telnet. It only gets about halfway through, but still an amazing effort.
posted by Gaz (16 comments total)

That rocked. Nice link, Gaz. Proof that you can do incredibly cool things with very simple tools.
posted by jonmc at 9:55 AM on March 1, 2002

Here it is in java.
posted by Gaz at 9:56 AM on March 1, 2002

Damn. I am impressed.
posted by dissent at 9:59 AM on March 1, 2002

This is really cool. I'm curious, tho', Gaz - how did you find this? 'Cause it was linked to two years ago today. This is really a totally honest question, 'cause if it's just coincidence, wow!

The ASCII stuff is cool, tho'.
posted by starvingartist at 10:01 AM on March 1, 2002

Damn, I'm sorry. I was emailed it today. I did search. *hangs head in shame*
posted by Gaz at 10:03 AM on March 1, 2002

And starvingartist, thank you for being so polite with your double post callout.
posted by Gaz at 10:09 AM on March 1, 2002

Eerie coincidence!

Glad it was (double) posted. I'd never seen it before :-)
posted by spnx at 10:30 AM on March 1, 2002

i think it's pretty cool that after 2 years people are still seeing it for the first time and it's still just as impressive. unfortunately in that 2 years i don't think the guy has made much progress in completing it.
posted by suprfli at 12:01 PM on March 1, 2002

Maybe someone found it on the "two years ago" link on the sideblog and e-mailed it. *shrug*.

Anyway, I hadn't seen it, and I love it. That must represent a hell of a lot of work.
posted by Hildago at 2:01 PM on March 1, 2002

Maybe someone found it on the "two years ago" link on the sideblog and e-mailed it.

So I wonder how many degrees of separation I have from another MeFi user. Spooky!
posted by Gaz at 2:19 PM on March 1, 2002

This is WAY old.
posted by McBain at 2:54 PM on March 1, 2002

I've often thought it would be cool if people were to go back through the earliest days of MeFi and recycle old links. Particularly if they're:

1. still alive,
2. have been updated recently, and
3. offer potential for new conversations.

However, this link hasn't been updated in two years and only inspired conversation about how old the link is. I guess one out of three is bad.
posted by ZachsMind at 5:04 PM on March 1, 2002

This is perhaps the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
posted by ph00dz at 6:18 PM on March 1, 2002

Recently saw this at /usr/bin/girl. Perhaps it's making the rounds again.
posted by mikhail at 7:24 PM on March 1, 2002

I think it is making the rounds again -- I saw it first a few weeks ago, I think, when one of my friends IM'ed me about it
posted by dagnyscott at 8:36 PM on March 1, 2002

That was so cool. It was good to see it again. Thanks!
posted by Lynsey at 11:28 PM on March 1, 2002