ADadityaathalye·Sep 5, 2024Submission
List of "Awesome Console Services" curated by Igor Chubin
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awesome-console-services
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chubin / awesome-console-services
awesome-console-services
A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols)
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19Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.6KGitHub stars
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What it is
A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols)
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Where it is used
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Also in these discussions
- chubin/rate.sx · linked in 3 of the same discussions
- chubin/cheat.sh · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year19 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-11-07 17:42:42 UTC to 2026-01-27 21:00:58 UTC.
* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesSome of the older still-available services are listed below
SSH:
ascii.theater was mentioned here, so was mapscii.me
There's a bunch of games at https://overthewire.org/wargames/ (and there's likely still dozens of other small muds running over telnet as well)
chat.shazow.net is a chat server
Non-ssh (the games mostly require registration):
`curl wttr.in` for weather
`finger help@graph.no` for weather
`cat | nc termbin.com 9999` for a pastebin
`telnet telehack.com`
`telnet freechess.org`
`telnet gt.gamingmuseum.com`
`telnet fibs.com 4321` to pay backgammon
There's used to be Nyan cat through telnet, which I'd hacked into running on ssh but AFAICT there's no longer any servers around (my own server is no longer around either) https://nyancat.dakko.us
Unknown how many of these are running still: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/Ya
Read the rest
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There's a much more recent list that includes ssh and telnet services here: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
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On a related note, http://shells.red-pill.eu/ lists a bunch of free shell services.
See also: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term