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Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

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Post by queenkjuul »

iberator wrote: post #98
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.

I hate this server. Every single time someone talks about Telnet mentions this site for past FIFTEEN or TWENTY YEARS as something novel. ITs not obscure, not unknown or special - it's the most known talent site on earth. It was made AFIR to show capabilities of ffmpg ASCII/ANSI renderer. Real gems are SDF.ORG, TWENEX.ORG, or Cray 1 supercomputer Access, bbses and backdoors. Ps. Telnet can be run and it is DAILY insid…

It was a jewel of the Internet, yes the one telnet site everyone knew (the ONE and ONLY) and I'm genuinely sad to learn it's gone--it was still there last time I tried it.

And it definitely wasn't using ffmpeg, it was bespoke hand-typed ASCII

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#102

Post by queenkjuul »

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 ;)

It worked last time i tried it, but it's not working for me today

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#103

Post by cmcollier »

Ah, so this is why I suddenly got a bunch of email.

Hey all, site owner here. Thanks for the visits and all the fun stories! I really miss this era of computing. Feel free to let me know if you have something that should be added to the site.

Here's some site meta-history too:

https://telnet.org/history/

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#104

Post by iberator »

queenkjuul wrote: post #101
iberator wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate this server. Every single time someone talks about Telnet mentions this site for past FIFTEEN or TWENTY YEARS as something novel. ITs not obscure, not unknown or special - it's the most known talent site on earth. It was made AFIR to show capabilities of ffmpg ASCII/ANSI renderer. Real gems are SDF.ORG, TWENEX.ORG, or Cray 1 supercomputer Access, bbses and backdoors. Ps. Telnet can be run and it is DAILY insid…

It was a jewel of the Internet, yes the one telnet site everyone knew (the ONE and ONLY) and I'm genuinely sad to learn it's gone--it was still there last time I tried it. And it definitely wasn't using ffmpeg, it was bespoke hand-typed ASCII

apt-get install telnet (or whatever the package is called).

Then:

telnet SDF.org

get freeish forever Unix shell account.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#105

Post by michalf6 »

Vaslo wrote: post #74
jayknight wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'll all just be fingering each other.

Can’t tell if this is a sexual comment or a comment on people tattling on each other but thought provoking either way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#106

Post by macintux »

iberator wrote: post #99
macintux wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But you know TCL :) Why do you regret it? People 40+ and juniors can't get jobs now anyways. Even with proper degrees.

These were lpmuds, so I know object-oriented C.

I know things are brutal out there, but if I find myself unemployed, I’ll need every possible edge I can find. Homelessness is decidedly suboptimal.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#107

Post by kjs3 »

ifh-hn wrote: post #84
kjs3 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that this is much more dangerous than visiting a website. Are you being hyperbolic or do you seriously think the attack surface area of ANSI escape sequences is 'much more' than, say, Javascrpt?

JavaScript has to escape the browser sandbox, does telnet have a similar sandbox? Or can it access the system directly? I don't know the answer but if telnet can directly access the system that seems more dangerous irrespective of the attack surface.

That's a very fair point, but on my system telnet is 211144 bytes. How big is a javascript runtime + browser + browser sandbox. I have no idea, but I'd be really surprised if it was less than 3 orders of magnitude bigger, and not at all surprised if it was 4 orders of magnitude bigger. There's just more places for things to go wrong.

And, telnet isn't installed by default on many systems. So...YMMV.

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#108

Post by antisol »

cmcollier wrote: post #103

Ah, so this is why I suddenly got a bunch of email. Hey all, site owner here. Thanks for the visits and all the fun stories! I really miss this era of computing. Feel free to let me know if you have something that should be added to the site. Here's some site meta-history too: https://telnet.org/history/

Cool site! I especially like the list of RFCs.

Just fyi, towel.blinkenlights.nl:23 still works for me, though I think maybe that's an IPv6 version, there's a note about ipv6 at the start that I was too slow to read. Maybe it should be re-listed? :)

Re: A list of fun destinations for telnet

#110

Post by cmcollier »

antisol wrote: post #108
cmcollier wrote: post #103

Ah, so this is why I suddenly got a bunch of email. Hey all, site owner here. Thanks for the visits and all the fun stories! I really miss this era of computing. Feel free to let me know if you have something that should be added to the site. Here's some site meta-history too: https://telnet.org/history/

Cool site! I especially like the list of RFCs. Just fyi, towel.blinkenlights.nl:23 still works for me, though I think maybe that's an IPv6 version, there's a note about ipv6 at the start that I was too slow to read. Maybe it should be re-listed? :)

Thanks! I did notice there are mixed stories about it working, and I got some email about it too. I'll check it out and make an update.
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