27 May 2006 | Sent in by Hodgins91
1. On Your Desktop, Hit Start Button, Click Run
2. Type TELNET
3. A Separate Window should open
4. First hit enter, then type the letter o and hit enter again, then type towel.blinkenlights.nl and press enter.
This is a few years old now but still worth a look. Well put together and quite amusing.
Hauleth - Aug 27 2008 2:51AM It's run on linux too. But 1,2 you mus replace by run a bash and write telnet.
Guido - Jul 24 2007 8:05AM K, nugget. This has been around for years. Telnet is how people shared all their useless, albeit entertaining, crap before the Internet as we know it. No hacking. Effin' duh.
Zack - Jun 7 2007 8:27AM it's a good trick i would like to inform that the TELNET connects the users to other computers, allowing them to mess with your computer, did you get it? HACKING ATEMPT!!!!
THE_UKRAINIAN - May 29 2007 8:30AM 2 MDHG: Yes, you're right.
By the way, you can easily type in the "RUN" query field "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" in the start instead of typing the adress in TELNET program.
Ovbey - May 20 2007 11:21PM This is a cool little number. If you're a Star Wars fan you gotta check this out.
Grace Nguyen - May 8 2007 10:48PM Amazing
Johnny - May 7 2007 8:54PM You must have left something out, Yoda. They even left YOU out!
Yoda - May 3 2007 9:26PM Work, it does not. Connection failed, window said. The force, you must use. Destroy Darth Vader, I must.
MDHG - Apr 5 2007 2:43AM Actually this doesn't only work in Windows XP, it works in Windows 2000 and 2003 too - even Vista.
Why? This works because telnet is apart of windows, and the "movie" is freely available online. - So in reality this is just a fun item freely available on the internet, not much different from any video available on youtube...
Brian - Apr 4 2007 12:20PM You are simply using TELNET (a communications program bundled with Windows) to access a file off-site. This isn't something contained within windows. Quite entertaining nonetheless.
Ben - Mar 7 2007 12:01PM Wow it does actually work. And with ANY XP. Nice little egg.
Me - Feb 11 2007 9:34PM http://towel.blinkenlights.nl/services.html
Blah - Jan 16 2007 9:11PM I think this is actually made by towel.blinkenlights.nl and not a part of your computer. Telnet is actually an old communications program I believe.
Josiah - Jan 7 2007 5:26AM Hey, When you say 'Windows XP dos star wars film' its actually ASCII!
Definition of ascii....
a code that represents letters, numerals, punctuation marks and control signals as seven bit groups. It is used as a standard code by the transmission of data. The values range from hex value 00 to hex value 7F.