Telehack is a simulation of a stylized ARPANET/Usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.
Connected to TELEHACK port 36 It is 5:34 pm on Thursday, June 8, 2011 in Mountain View, California, USA. There are 52 local users. There are 24181 hosts on the network. Type ? for a command list. Type HELP for a more detailed command listing. Type control-C to interrupt any command. May the command line live forever. Command, one of the following: ac basic calc dir finger help hosts ipaddr joke login netstat newuser octopus ping rain score starwars telnet traceroute type usenet users zrun .help ac <areacode> lookup an areacode or areacode-prefix basic start the basic interpreter calc [expr] calculator dir list files finger show users on current system finger <user> show information about <user> finger @<host> show users logged into <host> help print this list hosts show list of major network hosts ipaddr show current ip address joke show random joke from unified joke database login [user] login or create a new telehack account netstat show connected hosts newuser create a new telehack account octopus octal/hex/binary/ascii key dumper ping <host> test a host for availability rain animated raindrops display score zrun score leaderboard starwars ascii movie telnet <host> connect to a remote NETSTAT host for login (try guest) traceroute <host> show path to <host> type <file> print contents of file usenet usenet archive circa 1981-1999 users show user table zrun show list of available z-code games zrun <game> run a z-code game Type ? for a command list at any prompt. Type ^C to interrupt any command. Type MORE telehack.txt for more info. More commands available after login.
/misc | Jun 09, 2011