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/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?
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.
“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~")
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'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 might be too young. But I like writing webpages on my own isolated vps :) I can move around my own domain and even install packages! While still having the shell experience. And these days you can go as low as $10 per YEAR on a vps.
I might be too young. But I like writing webpages on my own isolated vps :) I can move around my own domain and even install packages! While still having the shell experience. And these days you can go as low as $10 per YEAR on a vps.
Where can you get a vps for $10 a year?