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doge-chaser t1_jbuj195 wrote

There was a telnet server that did it long before that.

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FamousM1 t1_jbuk7yp wrote

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

https://youtu.be/q1U6v07v90g

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doge-chaser t1_jbvk38c wrote

That's the one. Fond memories of connecting on the school computers back in the day.

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Bmandk t1_jbxfq3o wrote

It also credits a guy named Simon, same first name as the other guy. Highly likely to be the same

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FamousM1 t1_jbyndqk wrote

I never paid attention to the credits, but looking back at it it seems like the ASCII site that was posted is the original work from Simon and then Sten Spans of blinkinlights "tellnetified" it

Good eye!

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