1 Aug
2023
1 Aug
'23
9:55 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 5:49 AM Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc(a)hack.org> wrote:
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com>, 2023-07-05 17:48
(-0400):
Interesting. I don't really get the point of the Gopher revival, to be
honest; sure, I get that people want non-graphical, non-ad-laden
content, but it sure seems like you could get something like that with
the web just using a text-mode browser like `lynx` or even `links` and
something like `gomarkdown`. It's like the people who want to use
Fidonet as an "alternative" to email. I mean, one can use the same
protocols in parallel with the mainstream services.
- Dan C.
I thought some folks here might find this
interesting. Someone else
today reminded me of tilde.town, which is a publicly accessible
machine running Linux.
The tildes are a whole movement of public access *nix boxen. Here's a
web page collecting a few of them:
https://tildeverse.org/
They are a part of a larger Smol Internet movement: tildes, the Gopher
revival, Gemini, et cetera. Of course they also have their own IRC
network (tilde.chat), their own Internet radio station:
https://tilderadio.org/
and phone network:
https://tilde.tel/
SDF and Eventphone (I'm permanently on the EPVPN) also have their own
phone networks, of course. Eventphone also runs their own DECT, GSM, and
3G networks during events, like the wonderful Chaos Communication
Congress (C3) and the CCCamp (coming up soon!).
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