On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:56:02PM -0600, cmccabe@tilde.club wrote:
Hi pfhawkins,
It is great to know that your other-tildes list is going to be updated!
It mostly already is! I'm just waiting to hear back from an admin before I purge another dead one.
For anyone interested, I put together a similar list of public access Unix systems (pubnixes) a while back. While I have captured some modern systems (including tildes) my big focus was the really old stuff. Did you know the first public access shell provider was way back in 1981?
I did know this! But they were generally outside the scope of my list gathering. (Skylab is an exception because they asked me to add them.)
pfhawkins, I doubt I have caught anything that you haven't already listed, but take a look. I haven't updated it in a few months (new baby at home taking all my time...) so very recent systems especially are not listed.
YAY BABIES
After a quick perusal I've already found one that should have been added to my list in 2016. I'll be going through this more carefully later, to be sure.
The main interface to my list is through the gopher protocol, but you can also see it through a gopher-to-web proxy. Here:
Gopher: gopher://rawtext.club/1/~cmccabe/pubnixhist/ Gopher-to-web proxy: https://gopher.mills.io/rawtext.club/1/~cmccabe/pubnixhist/
Thanks for the web proxy, I am not yet gopher-enabled.
The list of systems here is still a work in progress and everyone is invited to conrtibute if you know about old public access Unix systems. The data is in a git repo for easy updating.
What's the link to the git repo?
If you know of (or start) new tildes, send them to pfhawkins! But if you know of or about old pubnixes, I'd love to hear about them!
cmccabe
Share early, share often, everyone!
~pfhawkins
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:27:43PM -0400, P.F. Hawkins wrote:
Hullo swintons,
The resuscitation of tilde.club made it acutely aware to me that the Other Tildes List ( https://tilde.club/~pfhawkins/othertildes.html ) was sorely in need of upkeep. I'd been updating it every six-ish months or so as new tildes opened up, but had gotten lax at pruning down dead ones.
I set off on my quest to clean it up, and lo! I found a whole tranche of tildes that had never made it to my inbox. These have been added, and dead ones moved to the Defunct Tildes List ( https://tilde.club/~pfhawkins/defuncttildes.html ).
But where, you ask, was this tranche of undiscovered tildes, waiting to be added?
https://tildeverse.org/members/
The very organization that has adopted tilde club has members that had foolishly not sent me an email notifying me of their existence. No matter; they seem to be thriving without my little list.
~benharri then mentioned on IRC his own other tildes list:
https://tilde.wiki/other-tildes
So I had yet another tranche to pilfer from.
I'm absolutely blown away by the unique approaches to tilde-ing these other servers are taking. How awesome is it to live in the timeline where tilde.black and cosmic.voyage exist?
If you come across (or start!) a fantastic new tilde, do not hide it a random tranche. Share early! Share often! And share with me!
From the tranches,
~pfhawkins