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A literary magazine accessible only via telnet

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Re: A literary magazine accessible only via telnet

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Who doesn't use Telnet??? I still got my WinTin together with all the aliases from when I was MUD-ing!! What? It's insecure? Everything is sent in cleat-text? North Korean hackers can steal my coins and my Longsword?

Billions of people. It turned out that mobile apps are the dominant way for people to use the internet. Mobile apps have much better security, have a much better user interface, and are able to use native os features like taking photos.

Twas mobile apps that slayed the shell. ;)

SSH ate its lunch in shell contexts, and then those new fangled computer graphics and browsers pecked away at the crumbs.

Re: A literary magazine accessible only via telnet

#12
I opened a-Shell(1) on my iPhone, typed `telnet issue3.anewsession.com`, and I was in! Probably my first time connecting to a telnet server.

The works in the issue aren’t static; from the help page:

> New Session's third issue emerges into a world where we’ve had to change parts of who we are to survive. […]

> Both you and this issue will change with each viewing. Select a story by pressing the key associated with it in the index. Read it again. Come back to it tomorrow. Is it the same? Are you?

1: https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

Re: A literary magazine accessible only via telnet

#14

Who doesn't use Telnet??? I still got my WinTin together with all the aliases from when I was MUD-ing!! What? It's insecure? Everything is sent in cleat-text? North Korean hackers can steal my coins and my Longsword?

These decades, running an unprivileged ssh server is fine.
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