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jaredsohn | 19 days ago

To watch Star Wars in ASCII.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhcf6tc2jeQ

(Remember hearing about this a long time ago (from some searching I think it was in 1999 via Slashdot) and verified some instance of it still exists/works.)

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mmooss|19 days ago

  Connection failed
Maybe we should give the kind person who hosts it a break. Try it out tomorrow. (Yes, I should have thought of that before I tried.)

accrual|19 days ago

It might be the telnet filtering in action. The host responds to ping but I get nothing back on TCP/23, not even a reset.

cbarrick|19 days ago

~~IIRC the blinkenlights telnet movies have been offline for a few years already.~~

jaredsohn|19 days ago

I connected a few times today to the IPv4 one. Have had no problems myself.