V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

TELNET
       TELephone NETwork (Unix, Internet, RFC 854)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

TELNET

   /tel'net/ 1. The Internet standard protocol for remote
   login.  Runs on top of TCP/IP.  Defined in STD 8, RFC
   854 and extended with options by many other RFCs.  Unix
   BSD networking software includes a program, telnet, which
   uses the protocol and acts as a terminal emulator for the
   remote login session.  Sometimes abbreviated to TN.  TOPS-10
   had a similar program called IMPCOM.

   2. The US nationwide network into which one dials to access
   CompuServe.  It was created by John Goltz, one of the
   founders and system guru of CompuServe.  He later worked
   for Tymshare, one of CompuServe's big competitors.

   [Jargon File]

   (2004-09-14)