[cscottnet]

It's actually a 269-line test case for more serious projects at the foundation: the Offline Content Generator and Parsoid. We're allowed to have fun in the service of the greater goal. More technical details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway

[agumonkey]

I was meanly poking at Wales mails and hyper disrupting popup for money (you guess how much I like all this).

That said, I friggin love the telnet access point. I am a bit fed up with the ever more weighty web so simple text link + repl gets my vote.