Reply to post: Bring Back Telnet (or VT100/ansi via SSH)

Ceefax replica goes TITSUP* as folk pine for simpler times

Dr Gerard Bulger

Bring Back Telnet (or VT100/ansi via SSH)

There is a good reason it is popular. Brain is not cluttered with junk and mouse actions. Every now and again I have to open up an old clinical system of the 90s that used a telnet session. It seems SO slick compared to its modern versions if clinical systems, The quick keys, discipline the telnet session it enforced on programmers makes it SO fast and quicker to use than modern GUI. It gets information in and out that you need ergonomically. I often wonder if there could be conversion of telnet sessions for Ipads and Tablets. We need to get back to clear uncluttered text for so many applications.

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