Author:
Lon W. McDaniel
Internet 4 U

Telnet


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Telnet is a collection of program code that enables you to log into a main fram computer (one of those really big computers) as a user.

It works just like a local network. You connect and log in. If you donīt have a secret password you will have to make do with just being a guest at the computer. The systems administrator is responsible for giving different levels of rights to different types of users. People who log in with a certain type of password are given certain rights, i.e. they can do things, visit places, download things that other users can not. As a guest you will only have the bare minimun of rights. Most likely you will be allowed into a public area where files are kept for the general public to download.

Telnet-servers are UNIX-computers. That means that you must know a bit of UNIX in order to navigate inside a UNIX computer. UNIX was the standard type of computer used when Internet was born. Back then (in the 70īs) most Internet users wrote UNIX programs in their sleep.

Visiting a Telnet site could present some problems for many Internet surfers today, as many donīt know a UNIX from a Big Mac.


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