[ih] What does TELNET stand for?

[Vint Cerf]

great video - thanks Geoff!

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On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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