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I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!

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I added this to my website a while ago. You can open a terminal and summon as many as your computer can handle with something like `sheep 100`.

https://dustinbrett.com/

quite cool. how did you make that website ?

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

this is so sick

very cool website! I did sheep 4000 and my pc immediately exploded

The right click menu on the site is quite the trick. It took me way too long to figure out it wasn't the native Firefox menu.

(Also, among other things, all the posts are "editable" texts within a "text editor" in the simulated desktop. The whole site is bonkers ...)

Aww memories. One of my old colleagues would mess with my computer and added a bunch of these. I left them there much to his chagrin. I got revenge as one night he was in the office late at night by my desktop, it was completely dark in the office and the sheep baa’d and it scared the crap out of him.

Oh wow! Not sure if it was this exact program, but I remember some similar sheep roaming my desktop when I was young. It had the ability to draw pictures in MS Paint, and would often do so when you were working on something...

I was a big fan of VirtuaGirl myself. (NSFW if you Google about it).

You’re getting downvoted but it really was pretty fantastic.

I had to admit it was also my first thought. The sprite was very very well done, actually ...

Incredibly enough, the "VirtualGirl" executable is archived at the Internet Archive:

- https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265

It has been found worthy of preservation.-

Also: having Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion sitting on your windows.

It looks like this repo is is a rewrite of an earlier "scmpoo.exe" that roamed the internet in the mid-1990s. That was fun to set up on school computers to automatically launch at random times.

That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!

Haha thank you! This was my first thought too!

Wow, thank you! That brings back unexpected memories of playing on my dad's first laptop.

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