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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 kamikazi »

Upvoted with a thousand clicks!! Probably the most gleeful project I've come across in years. On to the waiting list.

I'm of the generation where Windows 3.0 was just coming up and there was DOS and as fresh highschool kids we just didn't know what we were tinkering with. A prof used to came and blabber about internal commands and external commands without really explaining the difference because most likely she herself was a n00b. And we used to get excited if we ever got a 30-min lab session to poke around with Lotus-123, Wordpro, Foxbase or Turbo Pascal. Then in grad college we got Novell Netware and some of us figured out how to crack into classmate's home directories and play pranks. I'm missing a few pieces but there was a kind of a LAN manager and it was possible to 'poke' other users. Like a Unixish Yoapp of that time. That was my first experience of cross-computer realtime chat.

Anyway longstory short this project brings back all the nostalgia of pre y2k and early college days for me. Can't wait to get in. So so happy.

ps: Anyone from India in yet?

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

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Post by dav- »

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…

What if you linked pages together in a sort of map.

In Minecraft, the world is segmented into 16x16 block "chunks". In this analogy, a chunk would be a web page.

Create a front-end application like Google Maps that allows you to navigate the map of web pages. You can submit a request for a web page at a specific location, e.g. I want the page located at (13, 37). Hyperlinks could be used to teleport users around the map.

Random thought of the day.

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

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Post by SeanDav »

joshmillard wrote: post #32

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 scored 8. Must have got lucky!

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

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Post by davidgerard »

jonathanyc wrote: post #13

“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.

I see it used in fics to denote a sing-song voice.

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

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Post by technomancy »

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.

So... that still works fine on freenode?

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

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Post by neilellis »

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

Personally I'm not sure about all this new fangled HTTP stuff. Gopher, ftp and a decent BBS are all I need.

Speaking of which has anyone done a local BBS (i.e. non web) on tilde.club? :-)

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

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Post by joshmillard »

joshmillard wrote: post #55
pja wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No point in making an easy one, I reckon!

Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.

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

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Post by jere »

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.

There's a little bit of discussion about that usage being an "Americanism" here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couple

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

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Post by bespoke_engnr »

danso wrote: post #3

If tilde club someday dies, either by crushing-traffic, hackers, negligence, commercialization, or acquihire, I'm hoping we get a post-mortem that was as fun to read as this origin story. I would love to even just see more machine configuration details for the "one cheap, unmodified Unix computer on the Internet" that is hosting it. Reading this post about someone building a community just out of a whim, and then see…

Thanks for this link; it's a really great read. I immediately thought, "I've had that idea!" (but then realized that I first had the idea to make per-website chat rooms after this guy had already done it). Fascinating.
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