indeed, we wanted to build an example for a quickstart to showcase "data in motion" and starwars seemed like a perfect fit, the OG had IP blocks in place which made it really difficult to use, so we thought of finding some OSS project that we could self-host and after a lot of searching we found "ascii-movie" (our patch: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/ascii-movie) and the end result was just as similar to towel.blinkenlights.nl -- https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart or simply telnet starwars.s2.dev 23

ps, it is running on fly.io so please don't melt the poor baby

Amusingly, the original that I wanted to improve upon a quarter of a century ago still works.

My improved version written in Java no longer does.

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/text-movie-player.html

It's been dead for years

Nope, it's still live

Fun with replies like these "Oh it's been dead for..." without even bothering to do a basic check

To be fair, it has been persistently offline for the past year or so every time I checked, so I'm not surprised that other people would jump to the same assumption.

Yeah, I assumed the same, after several attempts to access it over the past few years and seeing a few people online comment about it being dead