3 engineers on Hacker News describe using Telnet first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“portable clients were telneting to it to control it”
neutral · production · ajuc · 2019-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“could connect with telnet and read email that way”
neutral · personal · pbhjpbhj · 2017-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You could use local X terms and telnet (ssh? what's that?) to systems”
neutral · production · 1 yr · technofiend · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?