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If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send? (lemm.ee)

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[–] MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.win 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me a little more about these? What is the “demo scene,” how were they made, and why were they made?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

It's as rad as it could possibly be.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if anyone from that scene lurks on lemmy.