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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…
Love it even more because I recognize Paul Ford's name from his article "What is Code?" [0], which is how I first became aware of him.
"What is Code?" blew me away when I read it, bringing together both software development and the humanities (writing) and I sent links to just about every academic I called "friend" to, well, not much response.
So glad to find out Ford's tilde.club experiment blew up in a good way!
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
EDIT: add comma and missing direct object.
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.
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/
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.
I have one of the original tilde.club accounts. It was a fun moment, when a bunch of folks re-experienced (or experienced) the first time the pleasure of a shared Unix system. Just like the Old Ones had in college. When finger was social media, and "who" worked, and if you were really cool your .plan was a named pipe. It worked because it was nostalgic and because its sysop Paul Ford is a first class human being. Nev…
In college, if you would finger me, you would see an ASCII-art animation of the iconic motorcycle jump shot from Terminator 2 for 10 seconds.
I have one of the original tilde.club accounts. It was a fun moment, when a bunch of folks re-experienced (or experienced) the first time the pleasure of a shared Unix system. Just like the Old Ones had in college. When finger was social media, and "who" worked, and if you were really cool your .plan was a named pipe. It worked because it was nostalgic and because its sysop Paul Ford is a first class human being. Nev…
Can you explain what a named pipe .plan would do? In college, if you would finger me, you would see an ASCII-art animation of the iconic motorcycle jump shot from Terminator 2 for 10 seconds.