For over a decade, Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights have been a festive online holiday tradition for millions of Internet users world-wide. ... so it was sadly the end of an era last year, when this Griswold wanna-be hung up his Santa Hat in 2014.

Right after announcing his "retirement" and picking up again this holiday season, numerous people have asked if he could continue the Christmas entertainment "virtually".

So having a bit of a mischievous spirit, he dusted off the decade-old Perl computer code used in that simulation, combined it with a series of still pictures, and got it all working online at:

Check it out @ http://control-christmas-lights.com/