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This is a topic that hasn't aged well. In the age of inundation by spam and scams, search for "email spoofing" and the majority of pages are something like How Spammers Spoof Your Email Address (and How to Protect Yourself).

Email spoofing is about as old as the internet, because the internet was built as an optimistic space among like-minded geeks, not opportunistic scammers.

Speaking of scammers, there are sites and services one can buy to spoof emails (and text messages, and phone calls). But can you still telnet to a server? Yes! It's not straight-forward, but you can still learn how to use the telnet client in Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 10, or how to get telnet for MacOS in Mojave or High Sierra. And once you're telnetting it up, here are 5 more fun things available via telnet, at least as of 2014. In addition to connecting to BBSes.