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Re: merry xmas

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Wed Dec 24 16:38:40 2014

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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:38:31 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: Nanog@nanog.org
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On 14-12-24 13:27, Ken Chase wrote:
> (mtr|lft|traceroute) xmas.futile.net


This one uses only 1 IPv4, so can't be accused of wasting half of
internet address space :-)

http://http://www.vaxination.ca/temp/train.gif


This is an old 1980s ASCII art from VMS that ran on VT220s, digitally
restored to animated Gif.  (script to slowly dump content to xterm,
while quicktime is recording the screen, then off to Adobe Premiere for
cropping, scaling, and of course, giving it the CRT look by making it
amber text of black background :-)

A flash version was also created by twitter:

https://twitter.com/jfmezei/status/547300803779002368/photo/1


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