[lug] Old stuff that still works (telnet)

Timothy C. Klein teece at silverklein.net
Mon Apr 22 17:05:19 MDT 2002


* Riggs, Rob (RRiggs at doubleclick.net) wrote:
> Speaking of telnet services... This, I think, currently stands as *the*
> defining achievement in internet technology: 'telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl'
> (telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl).
> 
> I was completely floored when I saw this.
> 
> Enjoy! :-)
> 

Hah!  That was fun!  What a great use of telnet.  An character cell
graphics capability.  We don't need no bitmap graphics!  Reminds me of
the ascii output for mplayer and the like.

Tim
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