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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
heheheh any ideas what I should do? http://tilde.club/~thomas
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
I actually had, and remember, and certainly ordered from, that exact CCS catalog. What a weird memory you just brought back.
This reminded me MIT still uses ~ for public www space. Must be an artifact of this UNIX paradigm. Brian Chan as an example: http://www.mit.edu/~chosetec/ .
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.
I love this. I absolutely love this. This project hits that sweet spot where "old timers" who remember the lo-fi social web have a place to call their own while also being appealing to the "young guns" who have only ever known the social web in the age of Facebook/Twitter and are looking for an alternative where not everything is easy and beautiful.
I've been using the internet before the Facebook/Myspace boom, but I never had the chance to really experience the "old-web" or usenet. This "project" gives me a chance to see a part of internet history that I missed or was too young to remember delivered from people who were there.
It's a really unique project for people like myself, and I find it comforting to see culture of the internet that I saw a glimpse of in my childhood.
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Your girlfriend's main page is quite nice. The frames link, though, reawakened fear I'd not felt in years. Haven't been to yours, so that her hit counter has a chance to catch up. ;-)
You, sir or ma'am, are a gentleman and a scholar. I literally just created this account to thank you. PS if you know how to make a link target a frame in a nested frameset, please let me know. It must go deeper.
My concern for this project is that it is so dependent on the culture of its users that is has to be strictly controlled. It cannot scale up, because a strong culture like this does not scale. There might be more Tilde Clubs over time, but such a machine is too easily disrupted by even a single bad actor, like peterwwillis says. Even if that did not happen, cultural erosion would happen, like a mini Eternal September…
So the only usefulness of this product is that it provides a feeling of nostalgia, and smug belonging? (Like you're cool now if you have a tilde.club page?) Thus we cannot invite lots of people to the tilde.club because... we're just too cool for them. I predict #Fail.
> 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)
In addition to 'wall' you can write to another user's tty if you're logged into the same machine with 'write' https://blogs.oracle.com/pranav/entry/how_to_send_message_to...