Just go to START > RUN
then type: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
click OK or hit ENTER
enjoy the show

 

lol i remember when this first came out. everyone thought it was the ****. google telnet to learn more about it and find other stuff you can do with it

 

///having finally reached the height of geekdom, he stopped and wondered what else he could do to ensure that he would never go on a date again.....

 

that is freaking ridiculous. its so freaking long. but its probably a url to a site because you need internet connection.

 

yeah pretty much... back in the days before GUI desktops and green screen CRT's ruled the computing world... lol...

Funny, I look back just 10 years and Win95 was the shizit - I got my first Motorola flip phone with nothing more than buttons to dial with - it was the size of an old school chalk eraser and weighed just over a pound.

Now my Samsung can connect to the Internet with streaming video and a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes video on a micro 2GB SD card....

Wonder what will happen in 2017?

 

I dont get it...

 

lol thats cool but it is really build in to linux not just a web link

 

It's the geek (circa early 1980's) attempt to put a movie on computer - it's all done in ASCII text