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List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by kchoudhu »

Twisol wrote: post #7

Aside from a variety of MUDs (see topmudsites.com for a bunch), one of my favorite Telnet destinations is HORIZONS ( https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi ). > This tool provides a web-based limited interface to JPL's HORIZONS system which can be used to generate ephemerides for solar-system bodies. Full access to HORIZONS features is available via the primary telnet interface.

Came here to post this one. I've had some seriously awesome times messing around with this service.

Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by sireat »

jpswade wrote: post #6

CDNow.com was an online retailer. The company was founded in February 1994 by twin brothers Jason Olim and Matthew Olim of Ambler, Pennsylvania. Initially launched as a Telnet service in August 1994, CDNow became a retail website in September 1994.

Indeed, CDNow started before Amazon despite later being merged into Amazon.

I used to buy CDs through CDNow using Telnet in 1994-1995.

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Post by icedchai »

kyberias wrote: post #10

I like modems. How feasible is it to run actual, real modems over IP-based network? Sampling audio at one end and playing it back on the other. We could have the old BBSs back. That would be great.

Modems work over VoIP for low baud rates (9600 or less.) Check out the bbs subreddit.

Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by contingencies »

kyberias wrote: post #10

I like modems. How feasible is it to run actual, real modems over IP-based network? Sampling audio at one end and playing it back on the other. We could have the old BBSs back. That would be great.

http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/

I ran a business on this, it works fine.

Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by i336_ »

contingencies wrote: post #16
kyberias wrote: post #10

I like modems. How feasible is it to run actual, real modems over IP-based network? Sampling audio at one end and playing it back on the other. We could have the old BBSs back. That would be great.

http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/ I ran a business on this, it works fine.

Thanks so much. People only talk about the faxing capabilities of software DSPs, not the "general purpose modem" capabilities.

Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by i336_ »

OK, I bit the bullet, scraped all the webpages, and tried all of them in a loop.

-- None work. --

Sorry.

However, it was interesting to observe that some of the domains do still actually resolve.

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Here's the general idea I used (I think this is all of the commands), in case anyone is curious.

  $ wget http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/oth/oth000.html
  $ mkdir x
  $ cd x

  $ wget $(grep -o ']\+' ../oth000.html |\
    sed 's,
Not perfect by any means, others will likely have much simpler ideas, but it worked, I guess.

The first grep command spits out the list of working domains and may be of interest.

The command is blind to the three straight IP addresses in the HTML files, which I tested manually (also didn't work) for completeness.

Re: List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)

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Post by d-crane »

My favorite telnet destination, and one of the few net destinations I still visit ~5 years later, is telehack.

telnet telehack.com

I've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, but only intermittently. I know they've recently added a system to exchange files (including BASIC programs, iirc!) with other users, which is pretty cool.

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