I had to spend the better part of 10 minutes in a class on Monday explain what Telnet was to a student. He could not wrap his head around a text based connection between computers.
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NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 1:35:30 pm PST #13247 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
omnis_audis - Mar 09, 2010 1:47:49 pm PST #13248 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
- telnet. CHECK
- Mosaic. CHECK.
- Old. ayup, I guess so.
NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 1:54:57 pm PST #13249 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I remember logging into my dial up Delphi account so that I could use Gopher.
Also lots of chatting with friends back in California using TALK and YTALK.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:55:01 pm PST #13250 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd still telnet, if I didn't have to SSH instead.
Then I'm all FIDOnet this, newsgroups that--no need to keep pretending I'm a youngun.
eta: remember when you could finger people?
Jessica - Mar 09, 2010 2:36:43 pm PST #13251 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But telnet was still common when I was in coll--oh, right. Over 30.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 3:07:53 pm PST #13252 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I don't remember using Telnet, but I do remember using Homer and Fetch. And I loved that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty.
meara - Mar 09, 2010 4:05:11 pm PST #13253 of 25501
Yeah, I used telnet in college! Um, up through and past 1999. Some friends went to another school where they still had "plans" on their...whatevers, and you could "finger" them to see what they were up to. It was like facebook statuses, oldschool style, because some people changed that shit all the time, or were mad cryptic, or said where they were headed to...
megan walker - Mar 09, 2010 4:08:06 pm PST #13254 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
you could "finger" them to see what they were up to
Um, seriously?
NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 4:14:03 pm PST #13255 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Oh yeah! I used to finger my friends all the time.
amych - Mar 09, 2010 4:18:20 pm PST #13256 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, it's just as twelve as it sounds.