Any one got a good MUD to recommend?
BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.
A list of fun destinations for telnet
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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#62The 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.
Whenever I want to go back to this era, I fire up w3m. Not everything works but things work well enough to quench my thirst
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#63For 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
venera venera venera
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#64For 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
> - the first spacecraft to land on another planet the first spacecraft to land on another planet the first spacecraft to land on another planet
The Wi-Fi password is "four words all uppercase, one word all lowercase".
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#65The 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!
sending email over telnet was part of my training as tech support for a dial-up ISP.
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#66Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#67Surfers!
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#68Earlier 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!
sending email over telnet was part of my training as tech support for a dial-up ISP.
Back in 1991 the older students showed me how to telnet to port 25 and make my "From:" email address be anything. It was funny when the person sitting next to me received an email from satan@hell.gov
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#69I 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.
We'll all just be fingering each other.
Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet
#70Related to the last Telnet CVE? Why talking about telnet now otherwise?
haha, I was just going to say the same thing