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For those of you too young to remember, all the early web browsers supported telnet: URLs, usually launching an external telnet client.
by spolsky 15y ago
For those of you too young to remember, all the early web browsers supported telnet: URLs, usually launching an external telnet client.
- sp332 15y agoAt least Firefox still does. Actually it supports any foo:// protocol if you're willing to configure an external program to handle it :) Edit: instructions here http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol
- mkramlich 15y agoI have a vague memory of using a telnet URL in a browser to play a text-only MUD back in the 90's. Was exotic compared to the default way of doing it in a terminal shell session.