A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away...

This is pretty cool, in a very retro, low-tech way, but you can't help but wonder if this person has just WAY TOO MUCH time on their hands:

An ASCII animated version of STAR WARS

For those of you whose computer experience doesn't go back to pre-WWW days (say before 1993), ASCII, which is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, was how geeks used to create animated graphics on early home PC's.

Yeah, it's crude as all get-out by contemporary standards, but that's part of the charm of retro; seeing how far we've come from these quaint 2-D pixilated stick figures in just a few short years.

Ah, the innocence of a simpler time!