For those of you curious about what the Star Wars one looked like, the tradition lives on here: ssh -p 1977 sw.taigrr.com
just type `starwars` from telehack
A list of fun destinations for telnet
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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Search your OS repositories for something like inetutils-telnet.
I know. It's just that out-of-the-box, telnet isn't even installed anymore.
telnet isn't even installed anymore.
This is expected. Telnet is not encrypted and people are discouraged from using the client or the inetd daemon. It is assumed that if someone installs it manually it is more likely they have a reason to do so and hopefully understand the risks. It will always exist in repositories as there are still a myriad of enterprise appliances that use telnet for management and likely will be the case for the foreseeable future.
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#53this is ssh, but funky.nondterministic.computer is one
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#54this is ssh, but funky.nondterministic.computer is one
ssh doesn't support virtual hosts, otherwise I'd try some other stuff. There's just something to be said for running on the default port.
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#55The 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!
EHLO! You're definitely not alone on this RFC path ;-)
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#56Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#57Wasted opportunity for a telnet.net or tel.net domain.
This makes me think of the historical hxxp://simtel.net/ domain (now web spam, whence the hxxp), see e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20010602231157/http://www.simtel.... The first time seeing it I was always thinking to something like "simulated telnet"...
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#58The 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.
We run a copy using https://github.com/gabe565/ascii-movie, you can `nc starwars.s2.dev 23`
It's our favorite way of demoing s2.dev, https://x.com/jrdi/status/2014318511120670859
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#59I 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.
That should be Gopher for websites but advertisers would find it should it become popular. Text chat via IRCD. Advertisers get banned on IRC.
Or its modern incarnation, Gemini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#60Earlier 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.
During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p