Foo - Something funky. Window easter egg? ... and animated ascii ...

this is from another forum I'm on as presented to me - and it works with windows from XP on up.

Someone had a lot of time on their hands! - Long Ascii "movie" -- hehehe - Star Wars ala ascii

Instructions:

go to "Run", type "Telnet"

(opens black box saying "Welcome to Microsoft telnet client")

Type "o" (that's a small "o", not a zero)

Now type "towel.blinkenlights.nl" (without the parenthesis of course).

:)

Very cool!

Connection no worky right now...

I remember using telnet for e-mail back when i was a freshman in college... :lol:

"connection failed"

I wanted to see it, Tude!

this is from another forum I'm on as presented to me - and it works with windows from XP on up.

Someone had a lot of time on their hands! - Long Ascii "movie" -- hehehe - Star Wars ala ascii

Instructions:

go to "Run", type "Telnet"

(opens black box saying "Welcome to Microsoft telnet client")

Type "o" (that's a small "o", not a zero)

Now type "towel.blinkenlights.nl" (without the parenthesis of course).

:)

Congrats you found an old school bbs. I used to design those for my 3 haha

btw, instead of all that typing

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

works just dandy.

they made a new one...Matrix

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 24

cheers

oo another one...this guy has time on his hands...

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666

Thats the excuse server :)

Nice. I just don't have time to watch them right now.

:beer:

I love software easter egss.

I can't get it to run in Vista :mad:

:beer:

I love software easter egss.

I do too, but this isn't one. You're connecting to a remote server that's sending you the ASCII movie much like you connect to bike forums to view the site (sorry, I can't tell if you're playing dumb).

Very cool though, I had no idea there was such a thing as ASCII movies. Oh, and this should work on almost any computer that can run telnet, not just Win XP and up.

It's not finished yet, but you can get most of it here:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

I can't get it to run in Vista :mad:

You need to go to add remove programs and install the windows component Telnet

vista has it disabled by default.

It's not a Windows Easter Egg. You're connecting to a remote telnet server. Be careful when connecting to unknown Internet hosts.

I do too, but this isn't one. You're connecting to a remote server that's sending you the ASCII movie much like you connect to bike forums to view the site (sorry, I can't tell if you're playing dumb).Actually I thought about it after I posted and realized it wasn't technically an Easter Egg....but was too lazy to go back and edit my post. :p

:roflmao:

You need to go to add remove programs and install the windows component Telnet

vista has it disabled by default.
I can only find remove programs options. Vista help has something about turning on/off Widows options but I'll be dang if I can find it.

I can only find remove programs options. Vista help has something about turning on/off Widows options but I'll be dang if I can find it.

From the Control Panel, select "Programs and Features" then:

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/4/2/12/f_Image1m_3c9d869.jpg

I can't get it to run in Vista :mad:

1. Uninstall Vista
2. Install ANY other OS
3. Celebrate

ya, I forgot vista made every anti-intuitive...real kick in the ass.

Thanks I got it working, amazing ASCII work. Thanks ChiefCatchacold

I saw this like 5 yrs ago.

I saw this like 5 yrs ago.

Thats soooooooo cool....:p