If i was to make a 2 player game what would i use?

[Black Magic]

The title says it all, i was just wondering if i made a simple text based game what would i use? Like I've heard about things called sockets, ports etc? Just in curiosity

[Salem]

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

[hammerhead]

For a client server model, you will have to code seperately for the server and seperately for the client. The server will basically keep track of all the data like scores, players etc. And the clients would basically be the different players.