The Lights Keep on Blinken

Posted by michael on Saturday January 11, 2003 @10:02PM from the fingerpoken-good dept.

cavac writes "At the 19th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin/Germany developers showed their newest developments for the closed-down Blinkenlights-Project. One of the projects was the Blinkenlights Fileserver Project. Members of this team developed a protocol and some tools similar to ftp, which you can use to share Blinkenlights-Movies. Today, a first Beta-Version was released. You might want to check it out. (It also includes the famous Telnet-Blinkenlights-Player). We are still searching people willing to help us developing this software even more or to work with us on "Phase II": Implementing Soft- and Hardware for a Hardware-Based Blinkenlights Player. This will most likely based on one of Zilog's new Development Kits - the "Z8 Encore!"."

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Tsk, tsk, tsk. "Das Blinkenlights" is much older. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-11 22:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

Every generation thinks that they invented they latest gizmo. The "Blinkenlights" referenced at http://www.jargonfile.com/jargon/html/entry/blinke nlights.html as being from 1959 is actually a rehash of a sign for radio transmitters (das transmittenmachinen). I was working on my novice ticket when I first saw a very yellowed version taped to a radio transmitter in 1962 at my "Elmer's" house in Key West, FL. He had been a radio operator on merchant ships going back to spark gap days and had picked up the sign somewhere along the way. Everything old is new again.