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Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by jolmg on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:06PM (#24943672)
Apparently 1999, but it was a Java applet at the time.
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Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by jacobush on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:09PM (#24944402)
The java applet was just a telnet client in Java, IIRC. The original was a telnet server.
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Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by jolmg on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:55PM (#24947250)
> The original was a telnet server.

The telnet server says:

> Original Work : Simon Jansen ( http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ )

> Telnetification : Sten Spans ( [email protected] )

> Terminal Tricks : Mike Edwards ([email protected])

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Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by toast0 on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:40PM (#24944817)
IIRC, that java was self-contained. I think the applet zip file contained the textfile, which I used to make my own local viewer. FWIW, the text file has changed over time (which I guess is fair, it's not like Lucas hasn't changed his versions over time)
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