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| The goal with this preparation is to gain familiarity with one of the oldest, and most influential, forms of persistent online virtual worlds: The MUDs and MOOs! These worlds still exist if you know where to look. Some of them are in fact still thriving quite well. | The goal with this preparation is to gain familiarity with one of the oldest, and most influential, forms of persistent online virtual worlds: The MUDs and MOOs! These worlds still exist if you know where to look. Some of them are in fact still thriving quite well. |
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| Make sure you have a program on your computer to open an interactive [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet|telnet]] session with a remote host. On OSX and Linux, the program "telnet" should already be included, which you can then run from a terminal window just like this: <code>telnet <hostname> <portnumber></code> On windows you can download a very simple telnet client called [[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttytel.exe|PuTTYtel (direct download link!)]], run it and supply the host name and port number into a dialog box before connecting. | Make sure you have a program on your computer to open an interactive [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet|telnet]] session with a remote host. On OSX and Linux, the program "telnet" should already be included, which you can then run from a terminal window just like this: <code>telnet <hostname> <portnumber></code> On windows you can download a very simple telnet client called [[http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttytel.exe|PuTTYtel (direct download link!)]], run it and supply the host name and port number into a dialog box before connecting. |
