the.com/telnet
the internet before it wore a seatbelt — plaintext logins, zero encryption, total trust.
means a protocol for logging into a remote computer over a network and typing commands as if you were sitting at it.
from built in 1969 alongside ARPANET so researchers could operate distant machines from their own terminals; the name just mashes together teletype and network.
securitysends your password in plain readable text
replaced byssh, its encrypted, paranoid successor
still aliveused for old routers and retro fun
port numberdefaults to port 23, forever