Places to Telnet

Overview

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.

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• webmaster@telnet.org.

Various fun telnet servers

• india.colorado.edu 13
  Get the current time

• mapscii.me
  A Telnet interface to a Braille/ASCII map renderer (code and info)

• horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775
  NASA JPL HORIZONS solar system data (website for more details)

• telehack.com 23
  Telehack. Also play via the website

• doom.w-graj.net 666
  Play Doom in the terminal (code and details)

• freechess.org 5000
  Free Internet Chess Server aka freechess.org

• ticker.bitcointicker.co 10080
  The live price of bitcoin

• 1984.ws 23
  Edison Carter is…

• telnet.wiki.gd
  Telnet Live Wikipedia with AI assistant (more info, code)

Notable, but no longer online :(

• towel.blinkenlights.nl 23
  Star Wars asciimation

• towel.blinkenlights.nl 666
  The Bofh Excuse Server

Real classics. I especially miss the Bofh server.

• rainmaker.wunderground.com 3000
  weather via telnet!

Rainmaker was pretty great, and it lasted at least as far as 2018. I don’t recall what happened to it.

• nyancat.dakko.us
  ANSI art animation of “poptart cat”, with support for many different terminals (cool screenshots!)

The telnet server is offline, but the website is still up for this one!

• mtrek.com:1701
  mtrek (star trek themed game)
• xmltrek.com:1701
  xmltrek (star trek themed game)

Both are offline at the time of this update.

Muds, Talkers, BBS, and other systems

• bbs.archaicbinary.net
  Archaic Binary
• ateraan.com 4002
  New Worlds - Ateraan
• avalon-rpg.com 23
  Avalon: The Legend Lives
• aardmud.org 4000
  Aardwolf MUD
• bbs.armageddonbbs.com 23
  Armageddon BBS
• 52.88.68.92 1234
  Cuban Bar
• TextMMOde.com 23
  Sands of Time / Deep Space MMO
• legendofthereddragon.ca 23
  Legend of the Red Dragon (Canada)
• lord.stabs.org 23
  Legend of the Red Dragon
• thehatshop.mudhosting.net 3000
  Hallowed Halls
• eclipse.cs.pdx.edu 7680
  New Moon
• batmud.bat.org 23
  BatMUD
• forgottenkingdoms.org 4000
  Forgotten Kingdoms
• mush.shelteringcolorado.com 2601
  Sheltering Sky: Colorado by Night
• igormud.org 1701
  Igor MUD/
• zombiemud.org 23
  Zombie MUD
• achaea.com 23
  Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands
• gcomm.com 23
  Galacticomm BBS

Directories

• http://telnetbbsguide.com
  A large active listing of Dial-Up and Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet:

• http://vintagebbs.org/bbsLookup.php
  A bbs directory with location based searching:

• http://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/TelNet/url.htm
  Jumpjet has a nice list of telnet locations organized by category:

• http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
  Synchronet is a nice list of bbs systems:

• http://www.mudconnect.com/
  Mudconnect keeps a good list of muds and moos:

• http://www.lights.ca/hytelnet/
  Hytelnet is an old (an now unmaintained) directory: