Word: telnetã
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...continue to subconsciously sort everyone I know into neat little categories. Lest we forget, Harvard’s particular manifestation has also brought hitherto top-secret stalking techniques to the masses—finding out where someone last logged on has become a particularly valuable service with Telnet??s popular “finger” function on the fritz of late. While thefacebook.com isn’t explicitly about bringing people together in romantic unions, there are plenty of other primal instincts evident at work here: an element of wanting to belong, a dash of vanity...
...webmail also brings with it the tragic extinction of so many of telnet??s tricks, from stalking people with the finger command, the fortune and weather options as well as the ubiquitous “ph.” Also facing nearly certain death is the antiquated—but amusing—telnet “talk,” which, despite instant messaging, has survived intact to annoy anyone who is logged in for too long and makes it easy to send obnoxious banners to those folks worth disturbing. Webmail, meanwhile, leaves no user trail?...
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