Computer History aka Tech Time Travelers

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The Lost Worlds of Telnet (thenewstack.io)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Telnet was the internet for me in the early years.

There was a bug at the local university dialup for students and teachers - if you failed to login three times it would drop you to a screen where it told you to disconnect but you could actually telnet from that screen.

I used that to go to a few internet BBS's, and then eventually to MUDs which were early text based multiuser RPGs.