cmd Telnet

I've had to do a few tasks for my course. Sometimes the best way of doing things also happens to be the simplest.

In this case, the humble command prompt is by far the best way to use telnet. Jazzy GUI's are great and all, but why bother when you can achieve the same results with a couple of written commands? xcopy is also a great example of just how powerful DOS prompt can be.

So what did I need to telnet to? Deakin Uni's Library! It's interface brought back memories of using the old macs at the local community library as a kid.

A quick search for "bennahum" gave me the following results:

Of all the possible authors in the world to search for, the creator of the tutorial decided to pick the name of a guy who wrote a finance book, and happens to have the same last name as someone who wrote a book on dance... Ah well, at least the name kept me amused during the course of this task.

Now this is a good use of DOS and telnet! Starwars animated in ASCII characters! :D

A quick telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl brings up the fourth episode of the series. Albeit it is unfinished which is a shame (yes, i actually sat down to watch it all!) but still rather ingenious in the creators use of characters to form images.
I've always had a soft spot for ASCII images. I'm not sure what it is, but i guess it brings back memories of Dad printing them out on the noisy dot matrix printer.

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             MMMM88&&&&&    .
            MMMM88&&&&&&&
*           MMM88&&&&&&&&
            MMM88&&&&&&&&
            'MMM88&&&&&&'
              'MMM8&&&'      *
     |\___/|
     )     (             .              '
    =\     /=
      )===(       *
     /     \
     |     |
    /       \
    \       /
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