A list of fun destinations for telnet (telnet.org)

[1] https://archive.org/details/unofficialguidet0000fadi_r0y3/pa...

ITs not obscure, not unknown or special - it's the most known talent site on earth.

It was made AFIR to show capabilities of ffmpg ASCII/ANSI renderer.

Real gems are SDF.ORG, TWENEX.ORG, or Cray 1 supercomputer Access, bbses and backdoors.

Ps. Telnet can be run and it is DAILY inside of the telecoms and one of few ways to speak with BSC, RNC, RRUS and individual basebands(even ultra fresh with 5G). All over IP/SEC and isolated networks. You MUST know if you are serious about computer business hehe

AUDIT people also loves it - you can record entire session of Chinese or Swedish engineer doing some new shit to basebands. This or logging entire screen

Don't think it's dead.

/edit front page of google did this and it worked for me. Need to do a pip install telnetlib3

  import telnetlib3
  import sys

  def simple_telnet_client(host, port=23):
    """
    Connects to a telnet server and prints incoming data.
    Compliant with RFC 854 (via telnetlib handling of NVTs).
    """
    try:
        # Initialize connection
        print(f"Connecting to {host}:{port}...")
        tn = telnetlib3.Telnet(host, port)

        # Read and display output indefinitely until connection closes
        while True:
            # read_eager() reads data already available without blocking
            data = tn.read_eager()
            if data:
                sys.stdout.write(data.decode('ascii', errors='ignore'))
                sys.stdout.flush()

            # Check if socket is closed
            if tn.get_socket() is None:
                break

    except ConnectionRefusedError:
        print("Connection refused.")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
    finally:
        if 'tn' in locals():
            tn.close()
            print("\nConnection closed.")

  if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Example usage:
    # simple_telnet_client("telehack.com", 23)

    # Replace with desired host
    host = input("Enter host: ")
    simple_telnet_client(host)

Are you being hyperbolic or do you seriously think the attack surface area of ANSI escape sequences is 'much more' than, say, Javascrpt?