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Sorry, I have no gaming suggestions for you, but I'll answer the thread title anyway.

Telnet is alive and kicking in my house; I use it everyday.

I wrap non-interactive telnet inside Python and Objective C to control my Denon 4306 A/V receiver from my n8x0's, my iPod touch, and my Mac and Linux desktops. The Denon is very trusting, but because I like my speakers, when my son gets older I might have to lock it down with a tightly coupled OpenWRT solution.

I dig that bottom-row keyboard and number pad setup. I'm gonna steal that one day.

The people I feel sorry for are the influential people who RAN BBSes and then became nobodies when everyone went to the Internet. From pillars of the community to complete unknowns...

You can steal it here:
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That was like reading Sputnik to me. So thank you for not making me feel so old anymore!

I log in Trade Wars servers from time to time to kill the saudosism... I wish there was a modern game that could effectively take its place.

I think SDF (freeshell.org) accepts telnet access, but I always use ssh when available, and not just because of the encryption. There should be an easy way to set ssh for non-encrypted operation!...

I'm 29 y.o., and I've spent most of them in front of a console, thankfuly! I can't say I'm old school, but I admire it much.

I was thinking about Trade Wars but you need a script to effectively play that game, correct?

I don't think there's any tablet software that can handle Telnet scripts that I'm aware of though.

ssh only here, even for managing routers/switches on a private VLAN.

The only occasion I use telnet is to check that a port is open on a host or to get the ID string/banner from an ssh server (i.e. telnet host 22).

and since we are speaking about age: 29 and way too much time in front of text-only consoles (now I wonder if there's some way to connect to a serial console with a N800 (or N900 for that matter))

20 something here (near 30s now)... and I am not using telnet since looooong time. What is more, the last time I connected to a local BBS I was using a sharp Zaurus 5800 (the non linux version - the oldest model) and a VT100 connection... Nice recollections...!

Now, like Lorelei, I only use it to check if the port is open on a host...

Cheers...

Just use to using command line, I use mutt for email and vi for editing documents, scripts, files etc.... It just works bettter for me.

I can open a xterm to get to my work from home and then go to any switch, router, server etc.. on the companies network.

I do. Often. Very often, in fact. I use it as a tool, though, not so much for terminal sessions. If you want to test a mail server (telnet hostname 25) or test a web server (telnet hostname 80) and so on, you need telnet. Whenever I put on my network engineer hat, telnet is a great friend right alongside ping, traceroute and other very basic protocol tools.

HEYYyyyyy! I ran a BBS for nine years. I loved it, and it led me to eventually look into the Internet once I discovered it back in the old pre-Web days with Gophers and archie and veronica searches and so on. No regrets here!