Well I'd never even heard of telnet, let alone used it. After a bit of googling, and looking up the help tips for using telnet with Windows Vista, I discovered I simply had to activate telnet from within the control panel. No problem. This funny looking window pops up, rather reminiscent of the nslookup control prompt used to check domain name servers, and internet connections and such (I only have limited experience with this too. After familiarising myself with the commands available, it was very straightforward to look up the author name "Bennahum" and get it emailed to my Curtin email address. I have included a screen shot of said email below:
This seems a rather old fashioned medium to me-it reminds me of the old days where everything was DOS based. I hated computers back then! If I'd told my 20 year old self back in 1992 I'd be studying Internet Studies in 2008 I'd have laughed in my own face at the absurdity of the concept :D I like my nice WYSIWYG interfaces thank you very much. I'm a very visually oriented person. Having said this, the telnet client was very easy and straightforward, so it's simplicity does have something to recommend it.
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