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Comment by jaredsohn | Hacker News Reader

To watch Star Wars in ASCII.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhcf6tc2jeQ

(Remember hearing about this a long time ago (from some searching I think it was in 1999 via Slashdot) and verified some instance of it still exists/works.)

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Maybe we should give the kind person who hosts it a break. Try it out tomorrow. (Yes, I should have thought of that before I tried.)

It might be the telnet filtering in action. The host responds to ping but I get nothing back on TCP/23, not even a reset.

It's still working over IPv6

213.136.8.188 appears to not respond to telnet from any ISP I attempt to connect to it on, I wonder if its just not bound to port 23 on IPv4 or the ISP is filtering port 23. IPv6 works fine to connect.

~~IIRC the blinkenlights telnet movies have been offline for a few years already.~~

I connected a few times today to the IPv4 one. Have had no problems myself.

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