The text based internet can be exciting, informative, and fun. Using telnet, you can access a variety of these resources on the internet. Below you'll find lists of a few places to get you started. If you have an interesting item to add, just send an email to webmaster@telnet.org.
A large active listing of Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet:
http://telnetbbsguide.com
A bbs directory with location based searching:
http://vintagebbs.org/bbsLookup.php
Jumpjet has a nice list of telnet locations organized by category:
http://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/TelNet/url.htm
Synchronet is a nice list of bbs systems:
http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
Mudconnect keeps a good list of muds and moos:
http://www.mudconnect.com/
Hytelnet is an old (an now unmaintained) directory:
http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/