Windows XP

Windows XP DOS Star Wars Film

From Hodgins91 | May 27, 2006

1. On Your Desktop, Hit Start Button, Click Run
2. Type TELNET
3. A Seperate Window should open
4. First hit enter, then type the letter o and hit enter again, then type towel.blinkenlights.nl and press enter.

This is a few years old now but still worth a look. Well put together and quite amusing.

Current rating: 4 out of 10

13 Comments

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Guido   (Jul 24, 2007)
K, nugget. This has been around for years. Telnet is how people shared all their useless, albeit entertaining, crap before the Internet as we know it. No hacking. Effin' duh.
Zack   (Jun 7, 2007)
it's a good trick i would like to inform that the TELNET connects the users to other computers, allowing them to mess with your computer, did you get it? HACKING ATEMPT!!!!
THE_UKRAINIAN   (May 29, 2007)
2 MDHG: Yes, you're right.

By the way, you can easily type in the "RUN" query field "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" in the start instead of typing the adress in TELNET program.
Ovbey   (May 20, 2007)
This is a cool little number. If you're a Star Wars fan you gotta check this out.
Grace Nguyen   (May 8, 2007)
Amazing
Johnny   (May 7, 2007)
You must have left something out, Yoda. They even left YOU out!
Yoda   (May 3, 2007)
Work, it does not. Connection failed, window said. The force, you must use. Destroy Darth Vader, I must.
MDHG   (Apr 5, 2007)
Actually this doesn't only work in Windows XP, it works in Windows 2000 and 2003 too - even Vista.

Why? This works because telnet is apart of windows, and the "movie" is freely available online. - So in reality this is just a fun item freely available on the internet, not much different from any video available on youtube...
Brian   (Apr 4, 2007)
You are simply using TELNET (a communications program bundled with Windows) to access a file off-site. This isn't something contained within windows. Quite entertaining nonetheless.
Ben   (Mar 7, 2007)
Wow it does actually work. And with ANY XP. Nice little egg.
Me   (Feb 11, 2007)
http://towel.blinkenlights.nl/services.html
Blah   (Jan 16, 2007)
I think this is actually made by towel.blinkenlights.nl and not a part of your computer. Telnet is actually an old communications program I believe.
Josiah   (Jan 7, 2007)
Hey, When you say 'Windows XP dos star wars film' its actually ASCII!
Definition of ascii....
a code that represents letters, numerals, punctuation marks and control signals as seven bit groups. It is used as a standard code by the transmission of data. The values range from hex value 00 to hex value 7F.