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Due to bandwidth limitations, the Nyancat telnet server has been shut down.
If you are interested in hosting an official mirror, please let me known on Twitter.
This is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop of the Nyan Cat / Poptart Cat animation. (Mirrors)
This is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the NCSA/UIUC license and is available on github (klange). You may be able to find the nyancat package in your distribution repositories. If you like my work and want to listen to my inane social media postings, follow me on Twitter (@_klange). Also consider checking out this video of Nyan Cat on an actual VT220.
Open up a supported terminal^ and run:
telnet nyancat.dakko.us
Or you can click here on some browsers.
Don't see poptart cat? Check the terminal support notices and caveats below.
![[Nyan Cat]](nyancat.png)
Screenshot from gnome-terminal
In addition to telnet, netcat may also work. Check which version of netcat you're using and note that you can't tell netcat what terminal to report so you will always get "ansi" mode (non-xterm-256-color, uses "10X" for bright backgrounds).
BSD nc -v nyancat.dakko.us 23
GNU nc -T nyancat.dakko.us 23
Should work on all of the following (assuming at least an 80x24 terminal):
If you are using a modern terminal which reports itself as xterm or similar and you don't see Nyan Cat, try:
TERM=ansi telnet nyancat.dakko.us
If everything else fails and you know your terminal supports at least standard ANSI escapes (color), try:
TERM=fallback telnet nyancat.dakko.us
If that gets the colors right, but you don't support unicode, try one of the following:
TERM=linux telnet nyancat.dakko.us # For background-only, prints spaces TERM=vtnt telnet nyancat.dakko.us # Foreground, uses extended ASCII block characters
If you are on Windows and using the native terminal, try this:
telnet -t vtnt nyancat.dakko.us
Due to bandwidth limitations, the Nyancat telnet server has been shut down.
If you are interested in hosting an official mirror, please let me known on Twitter.
Shoot me an email: langek (A) acm (D) org
Or let me known on Twitter: @_klange
The server is set up to run with inetd and should be fairly stable by now, but if something does happen, let me know and I'll try to bring everything back online.
The server is written in C and runs with inetd. It does not make use of ncurses or other terminal libraries, but rather writes raw ANSI escape sequences after being given a terminal type, which telnet passes as part of its handshake. It was originally written for my personal operating system.
This server is a DigitalOcean droplet.
If your connection is lost during a successful run, it's probably because I restarted the server.
The Nyan Cat animation was originally made by prguitarman.
As stated previously, code is up on Github at klange/nyancat. I am accepting changes if they are worthwhile and improve the overall experience.
The application behind the telnet server was originall written for my toy OS. I was presented with the idea of making it a telnet server by friend and colleague Mike Lynn. It took about an hour of work to set up the animation to run at the right size (80x24), work on various terminals, and execute from a telnet connection.
One known mirror is in operation:
nyan.samoylyk.net
Many mirrors have shut down. Here's a list of domains that used to host telnet nyancat:
miku.acm.uiuc.edu
nyan.howes.net.nz
thefinn93.com
baud.org.uk
ebal.ee 666
th3ga.me
Results when a terminal does not claim to be xterm.*.
Results for the fallback terminal type, ugly but effective.
Nyan Cat on an iPad with iSSH.
Newer fallback terminal output, a lot less ugly. Uses ASCII block characters.
Running under LXTerminal, the default terminal for LXDE.
Under Windows with telnet -t vtnt nyancat.dakko.us
That Nerd sent me this pic of XFCE4 Terminal under Arch.
iSSH on an iPod Touch via @B4rr0
Terminator on Linux Mint via @Peetz0r
ConnectBot on Android, also via @Peetz0r
Another Connectbot picture, via @anthonydfhogan
Mac OS 10.7 Terminal.app via @iamjoeodell
VT220, video
Updated VT220 palette for better color accuracy.
AJAXTerm under Opera, once more via @Peetz0r
Shell in a Box (web terminal) under Firefox
XTerm on an HP TouchPad via @nicktabick
iTerm on OS X Lion, via @macjunkie
Nyan Cat on Cathode, a retro terminal emulator for OS X, via @charliesome
![Apple ][ screensaver](https://i.imgur.com/PTQmm.png)
Nyan Cat in the Apple ][ XScreenSaver, modified by @Peetz0r
An updated screenshot of Gnome Terminal with a timer.
A 386-40 (running DOS 5) and an IBM PCjr (from 1986, running DOS 3.3) both using mTCP to connect to the telnet server, via Mike Brutman (by email)
An entire room full of terminal Nyan Cats, celebrating Nyan Cat's birthday, via loraxx753 on reddit.
It even works in OS/2!
In froggey's hobby OS
From an old friend, on an Omate Truesmart.
From @compu_85, a Compaq Portable with mTCP!
I am collecting screenshots. If you would like to show me how nyancat looks under your setup, tweet me @_klange. I'm using gnome-terminal. If your setup isn't special I might not add your pics, sorry :( .