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Music Terminal Frozen in time, July 7th, 1990 Node
1:103/912 - Laguna Niguel, California SysOp: Marc Gohres |
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The system drive of Music Terminal, FidoNet
Node 1:103/912 on July 7th, 1990 prior to shutdown of connections
through dialup modem.
You can watch the entire Star Wars movie through the command prompt made out of characters from the keyboard.
For Windows computer:
Step 1: Just open Command Prompt on your PC, enter
following command and press ↵Enter.
1. pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"
If you see a
notification asking for Administrator permissions, enter the Administrator
password and confirm to proceed.
Step 2: Now restart the Command Prompt, enter the
following command and press ↵Enter.
1. telnet Towel.blinkenlights.nl
On Linux and OS X/macOS:
To run the Star Wars
ASCII movie on your Linux or Mac computer, simply open the Terminal app and
run:
1. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
or on more recent
versions without telnet
1. nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23
Try it out yourself!
© 2020 Marc Gohres
Revised July 31,
2020 9:04 AM