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by dTal 4416 days ago
From the title I thought I'd be able to telnet or ssh in. This is cool, but it's basically just a really awkward web page. I don't wish to denigrate the effort though. Surely some unixy commands wouldn't go amiss? At least 'ls'?

Hrm. For some reason I suddenly want some swag...
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Facens 4416 days ago
Ye this was a WE project that just looked so cool, and some of the libraries needed were already out there. Opensourcing & moving everything to telnet/ssh is probably the next step. For now it was just fun :P
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dTal 4416 days ago
That would be amazing! There's a real dearth of terminal-based amusement on the internet these days - last cool thing I remember was that telnet server that would play the first third of Star Wars in ASCII art. Being able to buy Unix swag entirely over SSH would definitely take the crown.

Good stuff though :) I see similar initial reactions to mine elsewhere in the thread, but let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good, eh?

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