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telnet 1984.ws
ssh sneakers@ansi.rya.nc
ssh rickroll@ansi.rya.nc
#telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
(below is better)
ssh starwarstel.net
telnet telehack.com
telnet bbbs.net
telnet moocow.mud.org 7777
telnet dfun.tw
telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com
nc -v 23 towel.blinkenlights.nl
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These are some fun terminal connections that produce cool graphics, animations, games and even bbSes... am I missing the COOLEST stuffs?? Can you add to my TELNET-SSH_coolness.txt???

Lemme know if you know of the next hotness that I'm missing out on!! :P



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Re: TELNET/SSH fun - Can you add??
By: paulie420 to All on Mon Oct 27 2025 19:03:23

Hi, Paulie.

Lemme know if you know of the next hotness that I'm missing out on!! :P

A personal favourite of mine (if you're using xterm) is mapscii.me - I wish it supported oldskool ANSI clients but I still think it's cool.

BobW
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Re: TELNET/SSH fun - Can you add??
By: paulie420 to All on Mon Oct 27 2025 19:03:23

Hi, Paulie.

Lemme know if you know of the next hotness that I'm missing out on!!

:P

A personal favourite of mine (if you're using xterm) is mapscii.me - I
wish it supported oldskool ANSI clients but I still think it's cool.

BobW
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Wow that's super cool!

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Re: TELNET/SSH fun - Can you add??
By: paulie420 to All on Mon Oct 27 2025 19:03:23

These are some fun terminal connections that produce cool graphics...

I'm using SyncTerm and Except for 1984 and BBBS I wasn't able to connect with any of them. I either got Unresolved Addr. errors or just no connection.

I could tell 1984 was displaying some sort of animation, but it showed up as garbage characters. BBBS worked, but I didn't get past the registration stage.
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I'm using SyncTerm and Except for 1984 and BBBS I wasn't able to connect with any of them. I either got Unresolved Addr. errors or just no connection.

I could tell 1984 was displaying some sort of animation, but it showed
up as garbage characters. BBBS worked, but I didn't get past the registration stage. --- SBBSecho 3.30-Linux

I should have noted - these are for running in the CLI, or powershell on Windows.

SOME will work in Sync, like telehack.com - but most do neat graphical stuff that work in a regular terminal. :P



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On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:03:23 -0700
"paulie420" (21:2/150) <paulie420@f150.n2.z21.fidonet> wrote:

telnet 1984.ws
ssh sneakers@ansi.rya.nc
ssh rickroll@ansi.rya.nc

These are cool. Not sure I'd want to try and have my BBS users run them
tho.

ssh starwarstel.net

I run my own version locally.

telnet telehack.com

Yup.

telnet bbbs.net

Isn't this just a bbs like any other BBS?

telnet moocow.mud.org 7777

There's over 500 mud, mush, moo, muck, talker, type sites out there
still. See The Ultimate MUD Connector under Mud/Maze on my BBS - endofthelinebbs.com

telnet dfun.tw

hangs trying to connect.

telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com

host rainmaker.wunderground.com
Host rainmaker.wunderground.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


long gone

nc -v 23 towel.blinkenlights.nl

Doesn't work. Wasn't this the BOFH excuse server? If so that's now at

bofh.jeffballard.us port 666

Yo could also look for

First internet backgammon server
Free internet chess server
NASA JPL Horizons

There's also a bunch of game servers

and Anonymous Archivers gateway.

I'm also on the look out for more fun telnet stuff.

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These are some fun terminal connections that produce cool graphics, animations, games and even bbSes... am I missing the COOLEST stuffs??
Can you add to my TELNET-SSH_coolness.txt???

Lemme know if you know of the next hotness that I'm missing out on!!
:P

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telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23
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