A list of fun destinations for telnet

 (telnet.org)

74 points | by tokyobreakfast 5 hours ago

10 comments

  • augusteo 3 hours ago
    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.

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    • nomel 1 hour ago
      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!

  • cl3misch 1 hour ago
    I was wondering why the Starwars one is not at the top of the list. Then I saw it no longer exists :-(
  • m-hodges 3 hours ago
    Oh man RIP towel.blinkenlights.nl 23
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    • kidbomb 2 hours ago
      Anyone knows what happened with it? Maybe the creator would like to pass the torch?
  • crowfunder 47 minutes ago
    Wasted opportunity for a telnet.net or tel.net domain.
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  • mwest 1 hour ago
    Very cool, some nice nostalgia looking through that list!

    Missed a trick not being able to “telnet telnet.org” though. :-)

  • shorden 3 hours ago
    nethack.alt.org is conspicuously absent...
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    • anthk 11 minutes ago
      And Slashem (his expanded sibling) and the server for Dungeon Crawl (for people which prefer action over exploration).
  • tech-no-logical 1 hour ago
    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|"

  • sgt 3 hours ago
    This is insane

    > doom.w-graj.net 666

    > Play Doom in the terminal (code and details)

  • n0um3n4 5 hours ago
    uff I hope i can list my MUD game (still in dev, though)
  • _ache_ 1 hour ago
    Related to the last Telnet CVE? Why talking about telnet now otherwise?