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OP here. I'm curious to learn of any other creative uses of ANSI and curl. Does anyone know of websites that use it as an easter egg?
by danicgross 14y ago
OP here. I'm curious to learn of any other creative uses of ANSI and curl. Does anyone know of websites that use it as an easter egg?
- ysangkok 14y agosince you're only dependent on dumping stuff to the terminal, I think Telnet is comparable. Did you see the Blinkenlights Star Wars?
- pjscott 14y agoThere are some pretty cool Telnet BBSes still running: http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/brieflist.asp http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/brieflist.asp It's a good way to be suddenly overpowered by nostalgia. I feel this strange desire to PEEK and POKE, and perhaps to call interrupt 13h.
- dice 14y agoNot curl, but I did something similar for a particularly dramatic death scene in a MUD 15 years or so ago. The hardest part was shutting up all of the normal MUD chatter that the players get (OOC chat and the like).
- songgao 14y agoOne thing that I often use is curl ifconfig.me But this is so damn cool!
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- minikomi 14y agoI just added one to http://poyo.co http://poyo.co .. thanks for the idea!
- pfranz 14y agoSlashdot used to stick random Futurama quotes in their http header. I'm not seeing it anymore. curl -sI http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org