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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by chancitag on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:48AM (#49910519)
Love SDF. They run some great services for members, like a mastodon instance and pixelfed.
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by wrxd on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @01:33PM (#49911953)
These are really cool services but to have a proper blast from the past you need to ssh in and join the chat on com or the discussions on bboard
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:50PM (#49914244)
ssh? Don’t you mean telnet?
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:14PM (#49915704)
SSH is 30 years old; it's fine
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by mulderc on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:04AM (#49918216)
Telnet is just a better name though.
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:06AM (#49919035)
Is it? I don't get any intuitive connection from "telnet" to "shell access over the network", personally. Although, by the same token I would be open to reusing the rsh name; "remote shell" does seem obvious.
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by mulderc on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:36AM (#49919254)
Telnet sounds cooler.
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by TedDoesntTalk on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:26PM (#49938796)
Because telnet was not originally shell access over the network. It was a serial connection.
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Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 by jmclnx on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:23PM (#49913851)
Plus you can easily setup your own Gopher and/or Gemini site and you can have your WEB site there too.

FWIW, I migrated my WEB Site to Gemini with Gopher as a mirror. Maintaining those on SDF is far easier than maintaining via *panels.

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