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Speaking of URLs that do fancy stuff on the terminal, I once stumbled upon this one from textfiles.com, it's essentially a short animated movie on the terminal
by busfahrer 3y ago
Speaking of URLs that do fancy stuff on the terminal, I once stumbled upon this one from textfiles.com, it's essentially a short animated movie on the terminal using VT100 terminal codes, all served from a URI. On modern systems you can use rate-limiting to watch it:
curl --limit-rate 1000 http://textfiles.com/sf/STARTREK/trek.vt http://textfiles.com/sf/STARTREK/trek.vt && reset
(the reset is there because it might mess up your terminal)
Other terminal-powered URIs:
curl cheat.sh/tar (gets examples on how to use the program after the /)
curl wttr.in/berlin (gets weather info with terminal formatting)
- hk__2 3y agoIf you want to do your own ASCII video via telnet, I did it in Go a few years back: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll It’s actually quite simple; the hardest part is to generate the frames but that can be done with ffmpeg+img2txt.py: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll/tree/master/moviemaker https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll/tree/master/movie....
- anthk 3y agoUse tritty to fake a 1200/9600 BPS baud rate.
- kolme 3y agoThere's also star wars over telnet: https://itsfoss.com/star-wars-linux/ https://itsfoss.com/star-wars-linux/
- ryukoposting 3y agoWow, this is really cool. It also completely borked my terminal! What fun.
- dancek 3y agoYears ago I made an ANSI art viewer with modem speed emulation. It has an outdated mirror of https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/ so most ANSI art that's ever been published is viewable. See e.g. curl ansi.hrtk.in/ungenannt_1453.ans