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Hearing 'blinkenlights' reminds me of the still very much up 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' telnet server which plays an ASCII art rendition of Star Wars if you dial
by benbristow 2y ago
Hearing 'blinkenlights' reminds me of the still very much up 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' telnet server which plays an ASCII art rendition of Star Wars if you dial into it.
There's a joke if you have IPV6 connectivity where if you use IPV4 it says it has full colour support but if you do... well, it doesn't!
- Insanity 2y agoCame to post the same..! Someone wrote about it on Medium: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/telnetting-watching-star-wars-but-doing-it-with-style-44ba9655ef1f https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/telnetting-watching-star-wa... Nice bit of nostalgia for me.