Re: OK, I give up. What is telnet?

[edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSapple2.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:21:17 -0500, "Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>
wrote:

>Hi.  Can anyone explain what Telnet is?  I am not an old school on-line guy,
>so I am not familiar with what it is and how it can help me use my IIgs and
>IIe.

For the most part, it is a VERY simple way of connecting 2 computers
over the internet.  Telnet sessions tend to be a lot like those phones
for the deaf (TDD phones?)--you type to the other computer, the
computer spits text back at you, and so on.  If you Telnet into a
decent Unix account, you can do a very surprisingly wide range of
things.