So, like the geek you are, you spend most of your time on the Terminal, hacking away at your code. Now and again, you feel the urge to watch a movie. But you have to fire up a whole new app for that! Fear not! For now, you can watch a movie from your beloved command line!
Just telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl, and enjoy Star Wars IV: A New Hope in ASCII goodness! Thats right, the entire movie is rendered in ASCII text.
The first one to sit through the entire text movie wins the “Best Geek” award
PS. For all you non-geeks out there:
1. What are you doing on this blog?
2. Copy and paste the following “code” into your Terminal/Command Line:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
What crap?!?!?!?!!! ASCII goodness is for the geeks of yesteryear. Linux has supported graphics on the terminal since v2.2 if I am right. Search for “Linux Frame buffer”. You oldie
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I’m old school, man. Gimme the command line and emacs over XCode or Visual Studio any day
Also, linux was not meant for graphics. ssh is *the* way to interact with linux
And so said the kettle.
Why do you think they invented “ssh -X”?
And really its quite hard imagining you to be an emacs fan. But if you are then welcome to the club.
Linux sucks at UI dude. Computing Zen: Mac for GUI and UNIX for code.
Hehe, yeah, I’m in love with emacs now. But, I remember when you first showed me emacs in college. I was like, why would you want to use this!!!
“The IPv6 version has extra scenes and extra color support. “