[citw150] Lesson 4 Question 6

I found that The Telnet  protocol was first defined by Postel in 1980 and its 
purpose was to provide a  fairly general, bi-directional, eight-bit byte 
oriented communications facility. 
More info: 
_http://edt.uow.edu.au/elec195/group-projects-2k/group10/hostory.htm_ 
(http://edt.uow.edu.au/elec195/group-projects-2k/group10/hostory.htm) 
I went to the Library of  Congress site mentioned in the lesson at 
_telnet://140.147.254.3_ (telnet://140.147.254.3/)  I really didn't like  it at 
all.   
As others have mentioned, I was confused when the  characters I was typing were 
not displayed on the screen.  The whole system  may have been great pre-www, 
but is just not practical with todays  technology.  The world wide web is much 
more convinent and  accessable.  I hope I will never need to use telnet again 
in the  future.
 
 - Adam Bartley

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