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Sunday, September 25, 2022

How To Watch Star Wars In Command Prompt Via Telnet

ascii Star Wars via telnet

You’ve watched all Star Wars movies a long time ago, multiple times, in different orders, on your television, computer, and theatres. But, with all the hype surrounding the franchise and its upcoming movies, it makes perfect sense to re-watch the original series. For true fans, the series could never get old.

But how about watching the series on your PC’s Command Prompt as an animated text? For starters, this has been a thing since the Windows XP days and you can do the same in later versions of Windows as well (or any OS that supports Telnet). Note Windows doesn't enable telnet as default. Go into Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on/off. Select telnet client. Then follow instructions. 

Launch telnet and type:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Star Wars will play the complete ascii movie in your telnet session. 

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