The Chaotic-Neutron

This is just frickin cool. I just saw Star Wars Episode IV in nothing but ASCII in a Telnet screen. OMFG. Some creative crazy nuts have turned the entire movie into ASCII art which is now available using Telnet. I absolutely have no clue, as to how the author managed to get so much time to get this movie done. Just plainly mind-blowing.

If you want to see it, open up the command line on your computer(Terminal on OS X, or “CMD” from the run option of your Windows PC) and type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”. Hit enter a few times and sit back with some popcorn to enjoy the show.

Now to push it up a notch and if you are using IP V6, you get the entire movie in color too !

Here’s a sampler.

Good old ASCII never ceases to surprise !

PS : If you do not want to muck around with telnet, go over here to watch the same movie as a Java applet.