Saturday, 23 February 2002

Bye Bye Blinkenlights

Blinkenlights will be shut off tomorrow morning around dawn. Blinkenlights is the world’s biggest interactive computer display. The Chaos Computer Club, a hacker club, has transformed the upper eight floors of a currently unused building into an 18×8 (giant-)pixel screen. You could play pong with your cell phone or send love letters or make your own little movies and have them displayed there. Might be a geek thing but I think this is so cool. Unfortunately I have never managed to play pong there. Nor have I managed to make my own blinkenlights animation. Just didn’t get around to it. I read in the paper that there is a chance for it to come back though once they have repaired the building. I hope it does…

Bye Bye Blinkenlights!

  Posted by Edda at 22:15 CET