For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we had the convenience of expression o…
  • singletona@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 hours ago

    Hi. I’m the guy that tipped HaD off to these things.

    Tilde communities predate the Tildes ‘service.’ and is effectivly a return/recreation of the pre-graphical web service model of ‘you’re connecting with a specific machine and using its services.’

    No it isn’t for everyone, and sadly no while most have email services gmail, icloud, etc refuse to interact with them.

    I like it, but I’m functionally insane. It gives me a place to post static sites and my gemini based blog.

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    https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082

    gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~singletona082

    singletona082@ctrl-c.club

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Nice gopher site! I recently(?)made one as well. Its kinda fun and easy to do. That CSS is awesome!

      • singletona@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Gemini actually.

        And the CSS for the http site is literally from ctrl-c’s main page with a few values tweaked, as i didn’t like fullblack on background, and I edited the widths a bit. I think.

        • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          21 hours ago

          Woops I always get those mixed up in my head. Which is silly.

          I need to find time and look at all the amazing zines that are out there. ctrl-zine looks fun.

          • singletona@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            Next issue releases in April. We switched to quarterly because, to be honest, there was editor burnout trying to scrape for content each month and the zine ended up being like… three articles. VERY underwhelming.

    • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I never heard about the tildeverse before, sounds really interesting. How does one choose which tilde to join, though? It seems to me like only cosmic.voyage has a specific theme, while the rest only differ in the OS running on the machine. Or are tildes just there to host your account, while all the interactions are done via irc?

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    The resurgence of a lot of pre-web protocols is interesting, but I’m not entirely sure it’s going to be a sticky thing beyond a novelty.

    Also 100% agree with the first comment that on an article about the small web half the content is YouTube videos being hilariously tone-deaf ironic. If only there were some other method of sharing videos with people. Perhaps some sort of tube that’s peer-to-peer? A PeerTube, if you will.

    • singletona@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Tilde/Pubnix came first.

      First one was a thing in 1982. SDF opened in 1989 as a unix server (was an apple IIe bbs in 1985.)