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TL
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Saw this on a website somewhere, and got a kick out of it. I had no idea people did this kind of thing.

hit Start, Run, then type:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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Lyrhawn
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It's blowing my mind!
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Tante Shvester
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Wha? Now how did that happen?
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TomDavidson
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You used a common program called telnet (which many modern computer users haven't heard of, but which is really one of the original building blocks of the Internet) to connect to a server in the Netherlands. That server is running a program that's broadcasting an ASCII version of "A New Hope."
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Tante Shvester
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Tom, I just adore your geekish ways. [Kiss]
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I'm not getting anything when I run the address.
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quidscribis
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Um, sadly, I already knew what telnet was. For that matter, I've used it, oh, many many many times. Hundreds, if not thousands.

But then, I'm a BBS girl from the early 80s and, in the early 90s, installed my own state-of-the-art 1200 baud modem into my computer - and got it to work - despite it not having any instructions for the proper jumper configuration or having any compatible drivers or other software. [Dont Know]


This is probably the best Star Wars I've seen. [Razz]


THT, give it a minute or so to start. There was a delay at the beginning for me.
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Lisa
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You can get it via a web page, too.
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Icarus
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Heh . . . I first saw this back in 1999 or so. [Big Grin]

And yeah, I go back to BBSs you reached by placing your telephone on a modem, and later accessing Bitnet, and even later, the Internet (which we were all deeply suspicious of) from my college's mainframe. All you could pretty much do, though, was FINGER people, e-mail, TALK, and telnet onto their mainframes and mess around remotely, but only if you had a login. [Smile]
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The Pixiest
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Hey! I was on Bitnet! I useda use Bitnet relay all the time back in the 80s. (IRC is a cheap knock off)

But yeah, I had a mighty 300 baud modem when I was a BBSer. The text would crawl across the screen...
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I too saw this way back in 1999, half of me loved that it was ACII the other half just didn't have the patience to watch it all.

I logged alot of time on BBS', Anybody else here play Tradewars 2002?
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I think the game I used to play all the time on the BBSs was Legend of the Red Dragon(IIRC). This was probably in the 1993 range of time I believe. I used to love playing that game...

the star wars thing would be tons cooler with sound.
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You don't hear the music, sound effects, and dialog in your head as you read it?

Oh.

(Incidentally, they skipped a few scenes/lines.)
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