Telnet--Wtf?

Ok ive been hearing things about telnet i know it has somehting to do with the cmd and you can watch like star wars and stuff but other places tell me that its some sort of "hack" that once you connect to telnet something happens to ur computer and what not. And now i got some questions..

1.What is telnet
2.Is it a virus or something
3.Site that will tell me how to use it

 

1. Telnet is a program for connecting to remote nodes.

2. Not a virus, it might be able to be used for hacking.

3. I doubt you'll ever really need to know.

Yeah I saw that star wars thing. Its like the whole star wars using ASCI.

Do this:
Start | Run | Telnet | o | towel.blinkenlights.nl

and now view what people can do with truly no life. This isent a hack people just say that to sound cool.

 

Stupidest Shit I have ever seen, lol wow, why would anyone watch all of this?

 

You've never compiled Linux I take it ...
Yes, I watched it while I was installing Gentoo ...

 

What does linux have to do with this?

 

Linux takes an extremely long time to compile and install from scratch. 2 or 3 days straight in my case.

Therefore, you do get bored, and in my case, I ended up watching the entire text-mode starwars via telnet.

 

TO YOU

 

Lol.

Anyway, on topic, Telnet is basically a protocol. Not a program. There are programs to connect via Telnet, but Telnet itself is a protocol, just like HTTP, FTP, SSL, TLS etc.

 

hmm anything to bring that up

 

Haha, I guess you're right o.0

I tend to mention things from personal experience, which can be either good or bad depending on the subject, due to it sounding off topic etc. And I really only just noticed that.

But ya, Telnet is really nothing you need to worry about.