Comment by benbristow
Comment by benbristow 4 days ago
Hearing 'blinkenlights' reminds me of the still very much up 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' telnet server which plays an ASCII art rendition of Star Wars if you dial into it.
There's a joke if you have IPV6 connectivity where if you use IPV4 it says it has full colour support but if you do... well, it doesn't!
Came to post the same..!
Someone wrote about it on Medium: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/telnetting-watching-star-wa...
Nice bit of nostalgia for me.