ASCIImeo lets you watch Vimeo in ASCII (and it's retro-awesome)

It seems like HD is all the rage these days. A friend of mine recently did a month-long market research before putting down a sizable lump of cash for a 47-inch behemoth. And yes, it really is very impressive.

Still, sometimes I find myself wanting to go back to simpler times; back when men were real men, and ASCII animations were all the rage. Why I remember back in the good old BBS and Fidonet days, how we used to PgDown-PgDown-PgDown a long long text file with screen-sized frames and get it to animate like that. Ah, those were the days!

ASCIImeo lets you capture that magic again, only this time there's also audio (back then, you had to make the sounds all by yourself). There's not one but three, yes three (!), display modes to choose from. I like "simple ASCII" best, but I know some of you guys may like that newfangled "block ASCII" better so that's what I put up in the screenshot.

Enjoy!

Tags: ASCII, awesome, bbs, epic, retro, TimeWaster, video, vimeo, win