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A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by tosti »

nomel wrote: post #12
augusteo wrote: post #4

The Star Wars ASCII animation was how I learned telnet existed. Felt like discovering a secret passage in the internet. There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loading spinners, no JavaScript frameworks, no cookie banners. Just text.

Wanting to know how email worked and then stumbling on it being mentioned next to the relevant RFCs was my first exposure! You could easily check pop3 mail over telnet, by sending all the commands by hand. HELO! I then made my first email client, then an RFC later, and after browsing the web through telnet for a while, made my first web server!

Telnet was among my debugging tools for web applications.

And sending an email without line editing felt much more exciting than a dedicated mail client. Just dig the remote MX, telnet to port 25 and do it by hand. Marvelous!

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by RGamma »

augusteo wrote: post #4

The Star Wars ASCII animation was how I learned telnet existed. Felt like discovering a secret passage in the internet. There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loading spinners, no JavaScript frameworks, no cookie banners. Just text.

Not many moving pictures either. It was like the literary age of the internet.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by w4yai »

sigio wrote: post #16
cl3misch wrote: post #11

I was wondering why the Starwars one is not at the top of the list. Then I saw it no longer exists :-(

It still exists, and still works. I was sure I showed it to someone a few months ago, and just confirmed, it's still online. (I know the guy who built it). It works over ipv4 and v6, with the ipv6 version having some additions ;)

Doesn't work for me

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by tux3 »

shorden wrote: post #5

nethack.alt.org is conspicuously absent...

It supports SSH. Since that's already in place, not much point in telnet, especially since NAO wants a password. And you prettu much have to go out of your way to install a telnet client these days.

That's a bit like connecting to IRC with netcat. It's easy to do, there's some kind of a retro hacker feel to it, but it's just not very practical.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by hei-lima »

augusteo wrote: post #4

The Star Wars ASCII animation was how I learned telnet existed. Felt like discovering a secret passage in the internet. There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loading spinners, no JavaScript frameworks, no cookie banners. Just text.

The tradition lives on here: ssh -p 1977 sw.taigrr.com
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