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  • 2026 Aug 16: A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator

    https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/

    EI3LH hosts a genuine telnet BBS on a Casio VX-4 pocket computer, written in BASIC with 8kb of RAM. Callers connect over telnet; the calculator is the host, with a Pi Zero only bridging serial to the network. Read messages, leave a 60-character note, and hang up.

  • 2026 Feb 11: Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    https://old.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing

    We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specific threat actors explicitly avoiding GreyNoise infrastructure, though determining this root cause is impossible without internal data.

  • 2026 Feb 10: 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died

    https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/

    On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

  • 2026 Jan 27: telnet.org hits hacker news

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775135

    Every once in a while, we have a page picked up on hacker news or some other place out on the web. This one got a lot of traction and some fun interaction.

  • 2004 Jan: The Telnet Song – Guy L. Steele, Jr.

    https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2004/01/telnet-song-guy-l-steele-jr.html

    A classic hacker filk, appended to Donald Knuth’s “The Complexity of Songs.” Nested TELNET sessions turn Control-uparrow-Q into an exponential stack of keystrokes. Steele’s verses grow by powers of two until logout is a marathon.