[ih] What does TELNET stand for?

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> [...]
> At the time, the most common way to use computers involved punch cards,
> and there were rooms of card-punch machines available to write your
> programs.  Timesharing was relatively new, rapidly emerging as a way to
> actually interact with a computer in real time.   It was much more
> pleasant that other jobs where I used punch cards, submitted my deck,
> went back later to get the printout, figured out why it crashed, fixed a
> bug, and repeated until my program worked. [...]

please "enjoy" this fun short "Ellis D. Kropotechev and Zeus, This
marvelous time-sharing system" (produced by none other than John McCarthy
and Gary Feldman in 1967) that "documents" the issue of computers involving
punch cards -vs.- terminals and timesharing most spectacularly:
➔➔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5shcFi-og


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