alt Hacker NewsThought this was the ascii Star Wars in your terminal à la
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hellojason • today at 12:25 AM
Haha yep, first thing I thought of as well.
NDlurker • today at 1:39 AM
Same. That was my introduction to telnet
lacunary • today at 1:02 AM
me too and I hadn't thought of it in what feels like 20 years. I'm mad that's not what it was
It's wild that it still works to this day. I just checked it the other day via PuTTY.
I first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.