What is it? I tried reading the wikipedia article but didnt understand it.
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Anonymous2010-01-11 19:56
It's a protocol that connects you to a shell on a remote computer. Telnet is an antiquated protocol and it's recommended that you use SSH do achieve this instead.
So for example, say your friend had a Linux box and wanted you to remotely connect to it from your home machine, what you do is use a SSH client program to "connect" or SSH into his machine and login to your account that he created for you. From there, you could run IRC, a text editor, a text-based browser, whatever he has installed on that remote machine of his, etc.
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Anonymous2010-01-12 5:42
Ah ok I understand now, thanks :-)
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Anonymous2010-10-01 20:14
Telnet is mainly useful for legacy stuff these days - I ran into a Juniper router which only supported telnet and SSHv1, on the same subnet as a Cisco router with no SSH capabilty at all. It's also good for controlling headless Linux/BSD servers from a 286 or weaker, since SSH's encryption really bogs down the CPU on something that old and weak.