Hello, web friends, I'm Paulo, though many of you have known me as "brownpau" since the late 1990s when I first got on the web and started writing HTML. Today I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I have just recently accepted a position making internet for the Trailer Park Boys.

You may also know me as @PicPedant on Twitter. My website is at brownpau.com but I've lately been posting more to https://mastodon.social/@brownpau

I do apologize for the Hotmail address, but I didn't want the mailing list flooding my Gmail inbox, so I have resubscribed to the list from this special place.
From: Joseph Rooks <josephrooks@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2019 10:49 PM
To: Brennen Bearnes <bbearnes@gmail.com>; Andy Baio <andy@waxy.org>
Cc: tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org <tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org>
Subject: Re: Welcome to the "tildeclub" mailing list
 
Well, this is a nice surprise. I was just having a conversation about how burned out I am on all of the kicking and screaming on most social media and mourning the loss of the kind of internet I grew up with, when all of a sudden all of these friendly emails, many accompanied by familiar names, started coming in.

I’m @josephrooks everywhere. I’ve been writing for a living for 11 years now, usually with agencies that bring me in to help with copy for UX/web design projects. I dropped out of Virginia Tech to have a nervous breakdown not long after the shooting and decided to become a writer on a whim after just one writing class, and it actually worked out somehow.

I daydream about starting an Olde Internet Reenactment Society sometimes. I’m happy to see people carving out space for a little bit of sanity in my inbox, it’s the nicest thing in there in a long while.
On Sep 15, 2019, 10:32 PM -0400, Andy Baio <andy@waxy.org>, wrote:


Hi! I'm Andy Baio. I used to make things on the internet, and now I mostly make things off of it, like bringing 1,200 or so people to Portland every year for an annual festival called XOXO. You might know me from my work on Waxy, Kickstarter, Upcoming, Kind of Bloop, Playfic, coining the term "supercut," or some other stuff.

I made this disastrous DIY remix mashup thing for Tilde.club that still kind of works. Just hit all four YouTube buttons quickly and brace yourself. Refresh for another catastrophe.

Here are the last three things I saw online that made me happy.
  1. A text adventure game about fly fishing. Sort of.
  2. Gary Larson's official website for The Far Side redesigned for the first time in 19 years.
  3. Some Halloween decorations from the late 1990s that are relevant to this crowd.
— Andy.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 7:20 PM Brennen Bearnes <bbearnes@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello friends.

I'm:

- https://tilde.club/~brennen/

- proprietor of the tilde ghost town at https://squiggle.city/

- https://mastodon.social/@brennen

I used to write code to sell circuitboards; these days I work for the
Wikimedia Foundation.

I've spent a lot of my tilde time over the last few years on tilde.town,
and it's been a refuge and a solace in these generally appalling times.

Looking forward to seeing some of you in shell space, whenever I get my
key situation sorted.