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Telnet's ASCII Animation: Star Wars
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Contribution of Erik Thorne
For all fans of star wars, by connecting to telnet via Mac OS X Terminal an ASCII animation of Star Wars can be watched. It’s suspected that someone out there is extremely bored with his job or has too much spare time to spend on creating this ASCII animation (also named as 20th century text).
“This is the coolest thing ever”, claimed Erik Thorne himself.
Let’s try out this and see whether Erik is correct.
Connecting to Telnet
- Open Terminal
- Enter this line of command: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
- Execute the command line
- Take a cup of coffee and enjoy the movie
Snapshots
Luckily, I’ve managed to take two snaps of it before getting KOed by my boredom.
- Mysterious Hill
- C-3PO, Asking for Help
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12 Comments
paul
It is very cool, but... it isn't inside Mac OS X . "Telnet" is a network protocol. You're essentially playing a movie from a server in the Netherlands (towel.blinkenlights.nl). You could access the same movie from Windows by typing that command into a dos prompt. Oh, and who is "The chosen one"? That's C-3PO.
Wendy
Oh, so it's C-3PO, sorry for the mistake.. (actually I never watched Star Wars before). Anyway, I've changed it to C-3PO :)
Expired Yogurt
Wow...that's pretty cool...impressive work there. Must've taken forever to make that...
hazardouspaste
This has been around since 1997....
stephen
hay! it us in the Linux curnul too!!! w00t
Pat32à
Cool, never seen that before. Thx
twilight
As said before: This is NOT in the Kernel. It is like streaming a movie from a website, just a different protocol!!
Andrea
How much reliable could be a blog were the author posts so wrong information?
NaeRey
great blog and all, but please PLEASE fix this post! This bloody thing is NOT IN THE KERNEL. It's like saying youtube is in safari....
Nerd
God sake, how could someone possible say that this is inside the kernel ... I just discovered this site and I'm sure I won't be back. Shame on you boy :(
Ed
this shit is sooooo old!! -.- damm, welcome in the 21th century! >.<
Étienne
You don't connect TO telnet either. Telnet is a protocol, like the "http" in website addresses, it is a method not a place. Therefore you connect to a remote server VIA telnet.
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