Hello tilde~world! I'm echoing this thread but this is such a special moment and I'm thankful to here. I'm looking forward to connecting with many of you individually as well.

I'm D.K. Rehn (@softdetours). I'm a director/producer/curator and live in Los Angeles. Of particular interest to ~tilde:
  • I recently co-launched DISK SURF Ltd, a computing culture studio where we retrace the history of digital creativity/software art. We also invite artists to create new work with legacy systems.
  • I created and run WWWTXT (http://wwwtxt.org | http://twitter.com/wwwtxt) which revisits the early Internet (1980–94) through message excerpts (Usenet, FIDOnet, BBSes) to reveal paths not taken while also foreshadowing contemporary issues.
My page is ~rehn and I'll share the quote I posted there. Like many of us, I left the BBS world for the net/www in the early 1990s. Fast forward to the late 2010s and it captures my hopes for tilde and the future of networked community:

We are, to a large extent, saddled with a basic network technology that implies a large amount of central organization and control. But fortunately, mechanisms are evolving to give sysops back a lot of the independence that joining a network took away from them. 


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:26 PM Joseph Rooks <josephrooks@gmail.com> wrote:
You’ve Got Mail is a great movie and I’m not even a little embarrassed to admit to all the times I’ve watched it completely alone. Simpler times. RIP AIM. At least we still have IRC.

josephrooks was disconnected (netsplit)



On Sep 15, 2019, 11:20 PM -0400, Ryan Vahey <ryanvahey@me.com>, wrote:
Hey all! Just wanted to say I’m glad the site is back up! Also very funny to me that my wife and I are watching You’ve Got Mail tonight feels like I’m going back in time

Cheers,
~ryan320

Envoyé de mon iPhone

Le 15 sept. 2019 à 21:26, Matt Langer <matt.langer@gmail.com> a écrit :

Man this is real cool; how nice to get to engage with the internet in 2019 and not be left vaguely nauseated by the experience. 

I’m Matt (~langer) and I live in New Mexico. “It ain’t Mexico and it ain’t new,” say some of the bumper stickers; “so far from heaven, so close to Texas” say the others. I write code some of the time and work with horses the rest of it, and apparently I never bothered to update my default tildepage. 

Loving this thread. Keep the emails coming. 


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 6:50 PM Sid Carter <me@sidcarter.com> wrote:
I was just waiting for someone to admit they forgot their password and/or lost the key there were using, so I could admit that too.

anyway, I'm Sid and I'm in NYC. I was part of the devopsdaysNYC this year - if you remember that or were there :)

now to email root to get my password fixed.

~sid

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:43 PM Allan Donald <bonaldi@gmail.com> wrote:
Completely forgot my password too. I probably used a very retro one trying to be all smart. 

Hello everyone, I’m Allan. Work at the BBC doing Product things, mainly behind the scenes of News. If you want to talk CMSs until everyone else wanders off, I’m your man. 

~bonaldi

On 16 Sep 2019, at 01:05, Stefan Hayden <alt255@gmail.com> wrote:

I know if I keep trying I will get the password I used.... probably.

Stefan

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -Alan Kay

“The best way to prevent the future is to predict it.” -Arthur C Clarke


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:04 PM Ian Gowen <ian@gowen.cc> wrote:
has anyone else completely forgotten the password/lost the ssh key they used to log in, or is that just me? i have no idea what password i would have used and i've rotated my keys at least once or twice since 2014.

anyway, i'm ~igowen and i live in pittsburgh. nice to see that this is somehow still a thing.

-ian

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:58 PM Michael Sippey <msippey@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, I’m Michael. It’s great to be here. 

~sippey




On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 4:50 PM Dakota Smith <dakotasmith@gmail.com> wrote:
Blast from the past! Happy to see you all here. I think I am ~dakota

I’ll be in Austin this week if we have any Austin tildes, but as of this summer I live in Richmond VA


On Sep 15, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Stefan Hayden <alt255@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Nerds!

I'm ~stefan (and @stefanhayden on twitter) and I'm a developer in NYC at Shutterstock and I've been there for 9 years. It's a solid gig but I'm trying to get some side project off the ground so I can be more independent. Right now I'm trying to build out this site that lets you get fun notification sounds when some JS code run on your site (https://audioalerts.io).

It's a pleasure restarting to talk to all of you!

Stefan


"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -Alan Kay

“The best way to prevent the future is to predict it.” -Arthur C Clarke


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:25 PM Charles McNamara <charles.mcnamara@gmail.com> wrote:
hi tilde.club, turns out the water is still warm, huh?

i am ~quid on tilde.club and honest to goodness i thought of tilde when i hatched a semiserious crazy joke site with my officemate earlier this summer: https://pen149club.neocities.org/

time to go check my messages on pine!!!!!

have a good irl week, tildes,
charley

John Ladd <johnrobertladd@gmail.com> schrieb am So., 15. Sep. 2019, 19:14:
Hi everyone! As with all things tilde.club, this chain
is so pure, and I'm loving it.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:59 PM Leah Reich <ohheygreat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello world.
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 18:50 Joel Johnson <joeljohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m Joel, a friend.
>> On Sep 15, 2019, 3:17 PM -0700, Karen Cravens <silver@phoenyx.net>, wrote:
>>
>> On 9/15/19 6:09 PM, Maria Bustillos wrote:
>>
>> ~maria
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 3:06 PM Sam Goldfield <sam@rutgers.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for adding me to the mailing list. I don't know if this is reaching anyone else, or if I was added by accident (I created ~tea on tildeclub).
>>
>>
>> And I'm ~silver (one of the rare times I still got to use my from-the-seventies nick), keeper of TildeMap: http://tilde.club/~silver/sitemap2.html
>>
>>
>> (I gotta remember if it auto-adds new people or what; it's been awhile.)
>
> --
> Sent from my phone


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