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List of Telnet-accessible Systems (1997)
- emersonrsantos 10y agoWikimedia has a telnet gateway with a TOR hidden service: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway
- tyingq 10y agoTried 5 of them randomly picked. None worked. Guess this is more for historical value. There's also what looks to be an Apache SSI error at the top and bottom of the page: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
- verri 10y agoUntil a few years ago, a lot of freenets (like the 'AzTec' one) were still online and publicly accessible. It was always fun to roam those in search of some forgotten gems.
- ninjakeyboard 10y agoList needs to be amended with StarWars over telnet: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl (http://lifehacker.com/373571/watch-star-wars-in-text-via-telnet http://lifehacker.com/373571/watch-star-wars-in-text-via-tel...)
- jpswade 10y agoCDNow.com was an online retailer. The company was founded in February 1994 by twin brothers Jason Olim and Matthew Olim of Ambler, Pennsylvania. Initially launched as a Telnet service in August 1994, CDNow became a retail website in September 1994.
- sireat 10y agoIndeed, CDNow started before Amazon despite later being merged into Amazon. I used to buy CDs through CDNow using Telnet in 1994-1995.
- Twisol 10y agoAside from a variety of MUDs (see topmudsites.com for a bunch), one of my favorite Telnet destinations is HORIZONS (https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi). > This tool provides a web-based limited interface to JPL's HORIZONS system which can be used to generate ephemerides for solar-system bodies. Full access to HORIZONS features is available via the primary telnet interface.
- kchoudhu 10y agoCame here to post this one. I've had some seriously awesome times messing around with this service.
- mabynogy 10y agoSDF still provides a free shell: ssh://new@sdf.org https://sdf.org/ https://sdf.org/
- delinka 10y agonit: SSH != Telnet
- jboynyc 10y agoUntil about a month ago, new account creation was still through telnet, but in this "mobile first" age, that didn't make much sense anymore.
- d-crane 10y agoI heard about SDF through telehack, and very much appreciate the similar vibe, to say nothing of the historical provenance of SDF!
- garaetjjte 10y agoPong and Tetris playable via Telnet telnet milek7.pl
- kyberias 10y agoI like modems. How feasible is it to run actual, real modems over IP-based network? Sampling audio at one end and playing it back on the other. We could have the old BBSs back. That would be great.
- icedchai 10y agoModems work over VoIP for low baud rates (9600 or less.) Check out the bbs subreddit.
- contingencies 10y agohttp://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/ http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/ I ran a business on this, it works fine.
- i336_ 10y agoOK, I bit the bullet, scraped all the webpages, and tried all of them in a loop. -- None work. -- Sorry. However, it was interesting to observe that some of the domains do still actually resolve. -- Here's the general idea I used (I think this is all of the commands), in case anyone is curious. $ wget http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/oth/oth000.html $ mkdir x $ cd x $ wget $(grep -o '<a href=[^>]\+' ../oth000.html |\ sed 's,<a href=,http://www.lights.ca,' |\ grep oth) $ grep '^TELNET ' * | cut -d' ' -f2 | while IFS=: read -a x; do echo -n "${x[0]}: "; dig +noall +answer A ${x[0]} | sed -n '/IN\tA/s/.*IN\tA\t//p' | tr '\n' ' '; echo; done | tee workingdomains.txt $ grep '^TELNET ' * | cut -d' ' -f2 | while IFS=: read -a x; do grep -q "${x[0]}: [^$]" workingdomains.txt || continue; echo "${x[0]}"; ncat -w 5 -v ${x[0]} ${x[1]:-23}; echo ---; done Not perfect by any means, others will likely have much simpler ideas, but it worked, I guess. The first grep command spits out the list of working domains and may be of interest. The command is blind to the three straight IP addresses in the HTML files, which I tested manually (also didn't work) for completeness.
- contingencies 10y agotelnet bbs.l0pht.com # worked in 1997!
- d-crane 10y agoMy favorite telnet destination, and one of the few net destinations I still visit ~5 years later, is telehack. telnet telehack.com I've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, but only intermittently. I know they've recently added a system to exchange files (including BASIC programs, iirc!) with other users, which is pretty cool.