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Re:The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session by mprovost on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:52PM (#22205588)
The tilde escape predates SSH - it comes from the cu (Call UNIX) program in BSD 4.2:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/usr/src...

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