Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist

#1

Post by big_chungus » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

Tilde.club is giving accounts to waitlist
tilde.club

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#2

Post by magashna » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC

This makes me think of this game released earlier in the year, Hypnospace Outlaw

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#3

Post by markstos » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

magashna wrote: post #2

This makes me think of this game released earlier in the year, Hypnospace Outlaw

This makes me think of twenty years ago, except now we have SSH instead of telnet.

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Post by ianmobbs » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:22 PM UTC

[Here's a link to the waitlist](http://goo.gl/forms/gRMRT1YBU4)

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Post by Ace_Archer » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:42 PM UTC

Here's a tweet explaining a bit more context: https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1172545886968324098

Transcript for those who can't access twitter for some reason:

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain

A tildeverse-builder named Mike Buchholz (info@retrodigital.net) offered to take over http://tilde.club AND the backlog of 10,000+ people who asked for accounts. I said, that would be a blessing!

If you had an account, it still works. If you asked, they'll be in touch. 9:21 AM - 13 Sep 2019

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I've had the strange experience, since Mike asked to take on this responsibility, of learning that http://tilde.club kicked off a scene called the tildeverse, with many sites, servers, and its own github. https://tildeverse.org

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I wasn't aware that it had self-organized to this degree. Mostly I've felt guilty about http://tilde.club , which grew so fast and with so much interest that it needed a lot of time and love that I could not provide. It's great to see it was a spark for so many new things.

Michael Buchholz ‏ @MichaelBuchho13 Sep 13 Replying to @ftrain

Hopefully have backlog taken care of this week and other new sign ups available within the next week or so.

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I mean some have waited four years another week is no big deal.

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#6

Post by a-wu » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

Is this similar to sdf.org?

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#7

Post by rememberlenny » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 8:51 PM UTC

When I got an account for tilde.club, I used it to host the first website I ever made. Now you can see the oldest Dreamweaver based html page I made from when I was 15: https://tilde.club/~rememberlenny/

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Post by mhd » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 9:21 PM UTC

> - There is NO GUILT here. NOR SHAME. Not knowing things is fine. Not

> finishing them is fine too. Be a disaster! Make a disaster!

I like this attitude.

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Post by russellbeattie » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 9:26 PM UTC

I love it. So old school! Back in the early 90s in the university computer lab, you could jump on a machine and see who else was logged in (either in the room, or remotely) and use all the old Unix multi-user commands like who, w, last, finger, msg, wall, write, talk...

Isn't there a theory that most web services today are just versions of standard Unix tools?

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Post by jamestomasino » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 9:29 PM UTC

a-wu wrote: post #6

Is this similar to sdf.org?

A bit, yes. The tildeverse (and tilde.club) are public access UNIX systems just like SDF. The offerings are different and they're run by volunteers. Check out https://tildeverse.org to learn more about the various servers and what is offered by the collective.