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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

#41

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.

That would be incredible. I wish I knew enough to help with that sort of thing.

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

#42

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place. I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

That is one brutal Flappy Bird remix Josh - it's even worse than the original!

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

#43

If I could upvote this a 1,000 times I would. Here's to nostalgia! Anyone doing a vetted version of this, now that I would (not literally I might add NSA) kill for.

Vetted?

To prevent it ever being spammy, which is my first concern with any anonymous group of people. Just a place where you know everyone is a hacker (in the coding sense) and you know who they are in real-life.

Vetting is the opposite of Twitter/Reddit et al.

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

#44

“That’s a west coast thing,” said Mo, who grew up in California. “You use tildes instead of colons or dashes, it’s more like handwriting.” Interesting. I also grew up in California but never saw the tilde used as a colon or dash. I thought it was more used as a replacement for periods when the author wanted to come off as light/flirty/caring/sing-song.

Yeah I heard it originated in Korea, as a way of signifying a light hearted teasing / sarcasm (e.g. "see you at the finish line~")

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

#46

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place. I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...

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

#47
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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

Sweet! a good old fashioned hit counter where I can just reload and it goes up!

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

#48

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place. I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...

Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.

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

#50

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.

Yep. Same here.

For you young 'uns itching for the headaches of yesteryear SDF has been kicking, in one form or another, since 1987. Yep, you can also setup a vanity (~) page(s). http://sdf.org/index.cgi?faq%3FBASICS%3F11 or dive into the wonders of Gopher space http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher

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