The Swintons of Tildeverse

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About

The Swintons of Tildeverse is a report on the history of tilde servers as re-invented by Paul Ford. (It also glances at classic shared UNIX servers.)

It is currently a project by Gauntlet O. Manatee and nobody else, but you are welcome to suggest stuff I could add.

This is not a scientific work. I am not using bibtex to manage quotes, because I'm too stupid to figure it out gummi hates me.

current version: 0.1

• no beauty in this thing at all
• also, it is way short even for an ebook
• plus I'd like content from other users and other tilde servers
• anyone has numbers? dates? I'd like a list of all tilde servers complete with their dates of appearence (and disappearance), also user counts, used operating systems etc.
• while we're at the systems: I'd also like statistics on which webservers are used (anybody good with GNUplot?)
• there has to be a chapter about tilde interconnections (usenet, e.g.)
• the crashes. every tilde hitting puberty crashes. might be a good section in the vanity chapter

Download

Download version 0.1 .pdf here.

A list of all releases, including older ones, will be found here.

Take part

If you have any suggestions or want to add content, then email me.

Know of any lore I missed? Any meetups I did not mention? Tell me, please!

The GitHub repository is ready, too.

Log

2016-09-08 Released version 0.1 of the project and told people about it there and there. Also uploaded this page.

2016-08-30 Began to work on this. Sort of.

~gauntlet, swinton of $>ˆc, 2016-09-08