People would sometimes flip out like they had gotten a virus or whatever
There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loading spinners, no JavaScript frameworks, no cookie banners. Just text.
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 or Mudnet client needed :)
I’ve just poked my schoolmate - he almost didn’t graduate because of MUD.
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!
It's our favorite way of demoing s2.dev, https://x.com/jrdi/status/2014318511120670859
Are you being hyperbolic or do you seriously think the attack surface area of ANSI escape sequences is 'much more' than, say, Javascrpt?
Missed a trick not being able to “telnet telnet.org” though. :-)
traceroute:
...
15 213.136.2.6 35.049 ms 34.440 ms 34.338 ms
16 213.136.2.20 34.814 ms 33.359 ms 35.116 ms
17 213.154.229.42 33.837 ms 33.572 ms 34.794 ms
18 213.136.8.188 30.174 ms 28.810 ms 33.674 ms
tcptraceroute ... 23 :
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15 213.136.2.6 28.626 ms 28.657 ms 28.849 ms
16 213.136.2.20 28.608 ms 28.483 ms 28.515 ms
17 213.154.229.42 27.989 ms 28.058 ms 29.336 ms
18 * * * My traceroute [v0.95] ..... @@@@@ @@@@@ ...........
...... @ @ @ @ ..........
....... @@@ @ @ .........
........ @@ @ @ ........
........ @@@@@@@ @@@@@ th .......
....... ----------------------- ......
...... C E N T U R Y .....
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... @@@@@ @@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ ...
== @ @ @ @ @ ==
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The best part was how the users moderated behaviour - bad actors were ejected swiftly but rarely permanently.
Captcha: Repeat the first spacecraft to land on another planet three times.
All my answers failed. I guess I must be a computer.
- 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 Wi-Fi password is "four words all uppercase, one word all lowercase".
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.
#set signature="cat ~/.signature && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -n3|"
Not that it buys you anything other than being retro. :)
> doom.w-graj.net 666
> Play Doom in the terminal (code and details)
Maybe then we just go back to an oldschool text based way of communicating.
No google. No socials. Just text.
Do you know what the letters in LLM mean?
~/work/...> telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
zsh: command not found: telnetThis 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.