Telnet
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PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT
Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, was
the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other
computers around the world. is a plain ASCII terminal emulation
protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sour ....
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.... fifteen
years ago, the "internet" more or less consisted of telnet, FTP (file transfer
protocol), crude email programs, and news reading. Telnet made library catalogs,
online services, bulletin boards, databases and other network services available
to casual computer users, although not with the friendly graphic user interfaces
one sees today.
Each of the early internet functions could be invoked from the UNIX
prompt, however, each of them used a different client program with its own
unique p ....
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