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DEElekgolo
December 21st, 2008, 10:27 AM
1. Open Windows XP and go to Start, then run. 2. Type in or copy "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" and hit enter.
Limited
December 21st, 2008, 12:07 PM
This is pretty old news. Pretty cool nevertheless.
klange
December 21st, 2008, 12:31 PM
Older than Halo.
If you do it via IPv6, it's in color (via ANSI)
Corndogman
December 21st, 2008, 01:01 PM
heh, never knew about this. How long is it?
Rentafence
December 21st, 2008, 01:22 PM
It stops at the part where Luke finds Leia in the detention block. I actually watched it that long. Fuck.
Gamerkd16
December 21st, 2008, 02:13 PM
Older than Halo.
If you do it via IPv6, it's in color (via ANSI)
How do you do this?
Jelly
December 21st, 2008, 03:08 PM
You'd need an ISP that supports it. I dunno what to do past that, though ¬_¬.

Google might: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770581.aspx
ultama121
December 21st, 2008, 03:50 PM
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Lol.
DrunkenSamus
December 21st, 2008, 03:58 PM
How frickin' pointless. lmfaooo...cool for about one minute then my hand gets tempted to click the "X" button.
Limited
December 21st, 2008, 04:20 PM
Its not even like they just converted the avi movie file to ascii screens, I think they manually typed it out, then just played it back.
DEElekgolo
December 21st, 2008, 04:26 PM
The whole animation was scripted in a .bat file and uploaded to that telnet. Does anyone even use telnet?
klange
December 21st, 2008, 06:24 PM
The whole animation was scripted in a .bat file and uploaded to that telnet. Does anyone even use telnet?
Towel (http://blinkenlights.nl/boxen.html#towel) runs FreeBSD, it's definitely not a batch script. Probably a straight C app, considering the speed.

And no, no one uses telnet these days, it's all SSH.