The Geekiest Thing Ever?

 

I recently came across this . . .

Open up the shell in your operating system (Start > Run > cmd for Windows users) and enter this into the command line and press return:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

If everything works okay (if it doesn't it probably means your firewall is blocking the port 23) you will seen Star Wars the movie in ASCII (text) delivered through Telnet (a remote shell access protocol).

Being a very busy person and not much of a Star Wars fan I only watched a minutes ot two so I don't know how long it goes on for. It's hard to decide whther I should be impressed or feel pity at this. It's impressive that someone has taken the time to put this together (it must have taken hours upon hours) but at the same time I can't help feeling pity that whoever has put it together has wasted their time.

Is this the geekiest thing ever?

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