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

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

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Post by themodelplumber » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

linguafranca wrote: post #58

Ahh, now I remember why these kinds of websites died out. It's exciting a lot like Minecraft, in that we can make our own little worlds. We exercised both sides of the brain by learning how to write HTML and maybe some Perl, all while writing actual content. But just like Minecraft, that world is isolated and lonely. Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them. They were inherently isolated from the…

> Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them.

I have to say that this time around the ramp is pointed way higher. Like ~mathowie is doing wheelies right out the gate, content-wise. So I'll be heading back there and I just created a category for Tilde Club stuff in my bookmark database.

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

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Post by ilamont » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:19 PM UTC

Brings back memories of learning HTML and creating my first page, a shout-out to friends on a grey background.

And webrings. Forgot about those ... I believed they died out by 2000 or so, maybe when people realized they were detrimental to PageRank and SEO.

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

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Post by ForHackernews » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:35 PM UTC

There are lots of places online that will give free UNIX shell accounts: http://shells.red-pill.eu/

I used to have one on rootshell.be many years ago.

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

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Post by snsr » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:36 PM UTC

linguafranca wrote: post #58

Ahh, now I remember why these kinds of websites died out. It's exciting a lot like Minecraft, in that we can make our own little worlds. We exercised both sides of the brain by learning how to write HTML and maybe some Perl, all while writing actual content. But just like Minecraft, that world is isolated and lonely. Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them. They were inherently isolated from the…

> Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them.

Try joining a web ring?

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

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Post by phillc73 » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

ErikRogneby wrote: post #49

I was hoping to look at some plan files remotely and tried finger. It connected but hung.

I do remember spending a long time making my .plan file just right, in about 1995. Nice recall.

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

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Post by tomsthumb » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:44 PM UTC

33W wrote: post #40

mr_brown wrote: post #37

/me also misses IRC from the times where you could type -- all lines aligned (to the left, however unbelievable that sounds) regardless of the length of the users name. Today I have to pay attention not to write (b) or (c) because it might turn into a beer or coffee. We often forget to appreciate the simplicity of things.

I have Lync at work and have accidentally sent some kisses when talking about retirement... 401(k)

Last year you could crash lync by dragging a link from the conversation box into the text input box. Instead of fixing the problem they disallowed that behavior.

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

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Post by 0898 » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:04 PM UTC

Massively off-topic – but in American English is "a couple drinks" correct? British English would be "a couple of drinks". Just curious – I notice this a lot of US tech blogs.

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

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Post by hobs » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

bespoke_engnr wrote: post #22

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.

Yeah, I used lonestar back in the day, and had a great time. I wonder how much he is ready for when people get malicious though, getting a shell often meant something like presenting personal identifying information so they could come find you if you messed it up.

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

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Post by dav- » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

0898 wrote: post #67

Massively off-topic – but in American English is "a couple drinks" correct? British English would be "a couple of drinks". Just curious – I notice this a lot of US tech blogs.

I can't comment on it being correct or incorrect, but I believe that it is acceptable in informal speech, at least in American English.

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

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Post by GavinB » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:15 PM UTC

0898 wrote: post #67

Massively off-topic – but in American English is "a couple drinks" correct? British English would be "a couple of drinks". Just curious – I notice this a lot of US tech blogs.

This is common usage. I couldn't begin to tell you if it's "correct" or not.