[citw150] Re: Lesson 4 Question 6

I know that they used to play RPG games on telnet based servers.  If you
are unfamiliar with what RPG stands for it stands for role playing game.
You know like dungeons and dragons... games like that.  I have even seen
people play football (versus each other) with this type of technology.
It was tect based of course and had fairly basic algorithms to decide
who was successful during a play, but none the less these type of games
based on this type of technology were the foundation of what we now know
as online gaming.  Now that's pretty cool I think.

 

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Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:43 PM
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Subject: [citw150] Lesson 4 Question 6 

To learn about Telnet I went to the tutorial at: 
http://www.infoboard.com/infoboard/telnethelp.htm
I basically understand that telnet is a way to connect to another
computer 
and run commands on it, the same as if you were actually at that
computer.

After reading the basics about what Telnet is and how it operates I
tried a 
few different telnet sites to get an idea of what it was all about. I 
instantly recognized the little black pop-up box as one of the sources
of my 
past computer frustrations. Even though the directions seem so easy and 
straightforward, I always seem to mess up when using telnet.

I went to the Library of Congress Telnet site:
telnet://locis.loc.gov:23/
One thing that I have noticed is that when you type in a command it does
not 
show anything entered, but when you hit return it executes the command.
This 
makes it a little disconcerting to those of us that are not real
experienced 
with computers.

I also tried playing around with Telnet at a game site: 
telnet://3k.org:5000/
Frankly I found it a bit boring and didn't really understand why anyone 
would want to play games in such an austere internet environment.

Kevin Culling

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