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I share the author's nostalgia for Telnet, as a kid who spent many lost hours trying to telnet into "interesting things" at the dawn of the internet. It is, however, long past time for the protocol to die and force ancient and insecure things to be retired. Thus might just do it.
I remember using telnet on a Palm Pilot, linked to the internet via IRDA to my (pre-smart) cell phone to log into my companies' server to fix something while I was on holidays.
Similar memories here. The first time I went on IRC using a Palm Pilot connected to a Ricochet modem, while in a moving vehicle (not driving!) felt like magic.
For me, it was not while moving, but while sitting on the beach.