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[(Brian) Frost]

1. Open Terminal
...2. Type telnet (enter)
3. Type o (enter)
4. Type towel.blinkenlights.nl (enter)
5. Sit back, enjoy the show.

[Tom Kendo]

Funny, someone showed me this Monday. Works in windows as well.

Start > Run > CMD > Same steps as above.

[Duncan McLennan]

LOL. How long does it go on for?

[Silas Pradetto]

Tom Kendo wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:41

Funny, someone showed me this Monday. Works in windows as well. Start > Run > CMD > Same steps as above.

I had to do this first.

[Tom Kendo]

Good call. The machines I usually use to telnet to devices have always run XP. Never had a use for telnet on my home desktop that runs 7...

[Phillip_Graham]

I remember bulletin board ASCII art, but wow, this is crazy.  Has anyone watched the whole thing to the end?

Google finds this:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

[Andy Peters]

(Brian) Frost wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 09:58

1. Open Terminal ...2. Type telnet (enter) 3. Type o (enter) 4. Type towel.blinkenlights.nl (enter) 5. Sit back, enjoy the show.

It's LAB-dotted here.

-a

[Mac Kerr]

Phillip Graham wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 16:58

I remember bulletin board ASCII art, but wow, this is crazy.  Has anyone watched the whole thing to the end?

I only got as far as Obi Wan getting the message from R2D2.

Mac

[Adam Whetham]

Duncan McLennan wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 13:43

LOL. How long does it go on for?

it doesn't actually make it that far. I watched it till the end one day a few months back.

You get more options if you have IPv6 also. which i unfortunately don't

[Andy Zimmerman]

Someone actually put it on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDS7lRcGxgI

[Rob Timmerman]

(Brian) Frost wrote on Thu, 16 December 2010 11:58

1. Open Terminal ...2. Type telnet (enter) 3. Type o (enter) 4. Type towel.blinkenlights.nl (enter) 5. Sit back, enjoy the show.

Amusingly, there's a plugin to VLC that will convert any movie to ASCII art.

[Scott Trouwborst]

I let it play in the background, it makes it until Luke busts into Lea's cell and she says "You look a little short for a storm trooper"..... or some thing like that.