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Watch Star Wars in ASCII Text Via Telnet with Terminal, CMD

Watching Star Wars in ASCII text via telnet is probably one of the oldest tricks on the net. But not everybody may know about this “free television in your computer”. That is why today, I am going to show you how to watch Star Wars in text.

Telnet Star Wars Terminal

Using Windows Operating System:

  1. Click Start Icon
  2. Choose run and type cmd and press enter
  3. Now type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and press enter
  4. Wait for it to load and enjoy!

Using Macintosh Operating System:

  1. Go to your applications folder, open the Utilities folder, and then double click on terminal
  2. Now type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and press enter
  3. Star Wars should load after a few moments, sit back and relax!

Using Linux or Unix:

  1. Open your terminal in linux or unix
  2. Use the command telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
  3. Sit back and enjoy

And for those of you who can still not get it working, you are in luck. You can use the browser website version here (click here).

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