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Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by pja »

Who am I? I am the system administrator, Paul Ford. Like any system administrator, I will be slow to respond, will get everything wrong, and will act imperiously while never acknowledging wrongdoing. Consider this part of your authentic tilde.club experience!

That is just perfect.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by bespoke_engnr »

Oh man, this reminds me of my first shell account, and SDF, and the actual reason I got into computers. So excited. Maybe I could write a little communication API-type thing that these kinds of shell servers could implement, so communities could be linked together in some way? Hmm. That would be cool. I think I just found a good reason to mess around with Rust.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by phkahler »

cosarara97 wrote: post #16

> People logged in and started live-chatting all-text pictures of dragons to everyone on the computer. "wall" command? (I've never used a Unix system at the same time as another person, I think)

At uni I used to keep a text file with huge ascii art one word messages (redundant but large) and I'd "write myfriend lunch.txt" or whatever and they'd get a huge "lunch?" on their terminal. It was even more disruptive than texting is today ;-)

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by cosarara97 »

cosarara97 wrote: post #16

> People logged in and started live-chatting all-text pictures of dragons to everyone on the computer. "wall" command? (I've never used a Unix system at the same time as another person, I think)

Oh, IRC https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club/blob/master/docs/irc...

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Post by freshflowers »

This reminds me I need to make work of starting the quest for my very first homepage (with ~). It's still online, I just have no idea where it physically located and I've lost access to it in late 1996. The page is under the domain of an ISP that no longer exists, having been bought by another ISP... that no longer exists either.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by kjell »

cosarara97 wrote: post #16

> People logged in and started live-chatting all-text pictures of dragons to everyone on the computer. "wall" command? (I've never used a Unix system at the same time as another person, I think)

Largely `wall`. As of a few days ago there's an IRC server running on localhost.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by function_seven »

Mizza wrote: post #4

I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug my tildeclub page: http://tilde.club/~rich edit: Please also go to my girlfriend's page! She's jealous of my hit counter: http://tilde.club/~arch

The best part, better than all the other really good parts, is the "no cops" legalese at the bottom. I remember seeing that everywhere in the pre-Napster days (i.e. downloading loose MP3s from sites that looked just like yours)
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