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Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII text on the command line

14 Jul 2009

Thanks to the work done by Simon Jansen, Snore, and Mike Edwards from July 1997 to April 2008, it's possible to watch Star Wars: Episode IV in all it's ASCII glory from any command line that supports telnet.

To watch Star Wars in ASCII, open a new Terminal window and enter the following command:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

After a few seconds a connection to the blinkenlights.nl server will be established and the text-based movie will start streaming.

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