I agree with you, it is kind of weird, but it is very beneficial for many companies. GM still uses telnet and the current employer I work for uses it as well. When you do log into the other computer though, it has to be turned on or it won't work. From: Kyle Kolka <spartantuba2002@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [citw150] Re: Lesson 4 Question 6 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Adam, Yeah, Telnet can get kind of wierd if you have never used the application before. However, once you get used to using the program it comes in quite handy. Kyle Snavemada5@xxxxxxx wrote: 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement