Watch Star Wars via telnet

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Use Ctrl-] to stop it.
Sample Output 
A long time ago in a galaxy far, 
far away......

141
By: Alioth
2009-03-26 22:59:48
telnet telnet
12

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What Others Think

Awesome!
foucault · 877 weeks and 4 days ago
It's Great...
Border · 877 weeks and 4 days ago
Takes me back to my BBS years. Fantastic!
philiph · 877 weeks and 2 days ago
Doesn't work anymore. :(
maedox · 817 weeks ago
Still works for me :-)
splante · 770 weeks and 1 day ago
It worked for me :) ___ / ()\ _|_____|_ | | === | | |_| O |_| || O || ||__*__|| |~ \___/ ~| /=\ /=\ /=\ _[_]_[_]_[_]_
rajashekar · 689 weeks ago
working and interesting.
largem · 642 weeks and 6 days ago
=D awesome
davethomas11 · 604 weeks and 3 days ago
how to exit?
harriszh · 494 weeks and 3 days ago
ok, I found it. ctrl+] will back to telnet
harriszh · 494 weeks and 3 days ago
If you don't have telnet, this works as well: cat < /dev/tcp/towel.blinkenlights.nl/23
kees · 425 weeks and 3 days ago
their server is offline
monky · 231 weeks and 4 days ago

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