The protocol is so simple and the client so pervasive (it's even on Windows by default) that you could still do something semi-interesting with it today, I reck

The protocol is so simple and the client so pervasive (it's even on Windows by default) that you could still do something semi-interesting with it today, I reckon (for command line dwellers only though, it's just as easy to hit a URL and get some text back..)