I’ve been a bit behind on my tech podcasts, or atleast the video ones, and I’ve just got to the the Hak.5 April Fools’ Day episode (episode #507) which takes place in 1995. They talk about Windows “Chicago” 95, the SNES, Sega, the coming Song PlayStation, and how-to get free long-distance using phone tones. In the episode they mention a BBS at bbs.hak5.org, and well, I couldn’t resist.

I opened terminal and used the command telnet bbs.hak5.org and it actually worked! This uses the ancient telnet protocol, and they must have set-up a server. I’ve made a video of this:

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[UPDATE-19:26]Episode number is #507, not #90 as I had mis-stated.[/UPDATE].

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