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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by sixtyj »

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!

I have checked right now that Multi-User Dungeons we played in the 90s, still exist and are played. 35 years later!

Telnet or Mudnet client needed :)

I’ve just poked my schoolmate - he almost didn’t graduate because of MUD.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by simmons »

Wow, that takes me back. It reminds me of the pre-web days when people would set up telnet services for providing information about the weather, ham radio callsigns, lyrics, FTP search engine (archie), and of course BBSs. An acquaintance of mine maintained a list of telnet BBSs and services that was fairly popular at the time. [1]

[1] http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/internetinfo.txt

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by macintux »

sixtyj wrote: post #41
nomel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I have checked right now that Multi-User Dungeons we played in the 90s, still exist and are played. 35 years later! Telnet or Mudnet client needed :) I’ve just poked my schoolmate - he almost didn’t graduate because of MUD.

MUDding both taught me programming and pretty well wrecked my schooling, although in fairness, I didn't take college very seriously. Never finished my degree, which I now regret.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by macintux »

tech-no-logical wrote: post #10

for years I had this in my .muttrc. it's been commented out since it stopped working... #set signature="cat ~/.signature && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -n3|"

Per this thread it may be IPv6 only now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775926

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#48

Post by xeyownt »

xeyownt wrote: post #46

For telnet.wiki.gd, there is a captcha: Captcha: Repeat the first spacecraft to land on another planet three times. All my answers failed. I guess I must be a computer.

Tried:

- Venera

- Venera 7

- the first spacecraft to land on another planet three times.

- the first spacecraft to land on another planet three times

- the first spacecraft to land on another planet the first spacecraft to land on another planet the first spacecraft to land on another planet

- Rosetta

...

Okay found it: Venera Venera Venera

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#49

Post by VMG »

phplovesong wrote: post #22

I can forsee a future when all the AI slop, popups, fake news, propaganda and ads have fully consumed the web. Maybe then we just go back to an oldschool text based way of communicating. No google. No socials. Just text.

Do you believe that it is impossible to advertise, spread fake news or propaganda via text?

Do you know what the letters in LLM mean?

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