Module One - Telnet

Telnet - Downloading and using.

Having been a long time user of google i went straight to google search and looked for telnet.
Firstly i read about it briefly in wikipedia and then starting looking for a program which was both free and easy to download.

There always seem to be many options for this sort of thing and i fairly quickly found http://dtelnet.sourceforge.net/. Downloading the program and running it was easy and after fairly quick look it was simple to follow the instructions given in the module.

Once in the telnet program i wasn;t sure about the question on the first page


What kind of Terminal are you using?
V > VT100
W > NCSA VT100
Choose one ( V,W ) v
Please confirm: are you using a VT100 or compatible terminal? ( y/n )

So basically I figured i would try one and if that failed then try the other one. First go was successful and I was able to access the system.

I quickly figured out how to search by author and accessed the authors name "Bennahum".

The process seemed simple and easy to use.

I then moved on the the blinking lights. Once again i found it easy to log on and use.

After watching the Star Wars show i realised that a lot of data must have gone into creating it. It reminds me of a comparison between early black and white t.v. with "effects" and currently computer generated effect. This leads to thought about how radically and quickly over the last 20 years computer technology has come forward and especially about how far forward is can go in the future.

A lot of creative design and imagination has gone into the blinking lights show to create a very realistic interpretation of the star wars movie with the technology available.

Overall Telnet has obviously played a vastly important role of bringing both information and creativity to the Internet prior to access more readily obtained by accessing the world wide web.
Telnet is a data only application that seems to be most readily used for accessing remote computers. Telnet stands for Telecommunications Network, Its original use was to for remote computers to access information from libraries and still is, however is also used for connection to specific programs on a remote computer, connecting to an on-line database and connecting to a moo or mush environment to communicate with others.