The escape sequence for Telnet, however, was exponential. This lead to the Telnet Song, by Guy Steele, a link to which was once posted on HN. https://news.ycom

The escape sequence for Telnet, however, was exponential. This lead to the Telnet Song, by Guy Steele, a link to which was once posted on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060597 Note that the "up arrow" referred to in the song is not the current up arrow on the cursor keypad. Some early versions of ASCII-ish had an up arrow where the caret is now. And telnet actually mostly used control-], not control-^ anyway. I seem to recall Steele saying that he used "up arrow" because it worked better in the lyrics. I heard Steele sing this once and I think I recorded it.