What is "Telnet"?

What is "Telnet"?

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When you were at a university doing research and needing to hop around to different university computers, telnet is a way that you could actually transport yourself from one university's library computer to another. You could actually sort of move around the internet that way. Telnet really existed and was used before browsers came into widespread existence as a way to move between different computers and resources. Nowadays if you are really still wanting to know what telnet is, you should probably become a network engineer and get your Cisco certification.