Places to Telnet
Fun places to visit
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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Various fun telnet servers
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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 :(
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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
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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: