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I love that the primary interface to Horizons is still via Telnet ^_^ I hope they keep that interface forever.

It made me wonder how old the Horizons system is... I couldn't find any information. I would've guessed it dates back to the age of UNIX workstations and NSFNET, given the "e-mail" [sic] interface that produces either pure ASCII or PostScript.

The public internet service is from 1996 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060036597

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