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OP mentions Paul Ford's tilde club [1], [2]. I really must get around to putting up one of these locally soon - if only to learn about running a Web server in t

• veddox 9y ago
  > How would one go about that now? If you know your way about Linux and the commandline, it's not that hard. There's plenty of good tutorials out there for (almost) anything you would want to do. Renting a small VPS is not particularly expensive either. I did it this year and can only recommend it - I learnt a ton in the process :-)
  • keithpeter 9y ago
    That's a plan, thanks
• veddox 9y ago
  BTW, thanks for mentioning the tilde club! Hadn't heard about that before... A lovely passage from the Medium article: [Talking about the history of Unix] Fast forward 20 years: Your typical “cloud” Unix server, designed in the 1970s to be a very social place, is today a ghost town with one or two factories still clanking in the town square—factories that receive our email, or accept our Instagram photos and store them, and manage our data. But there’s no one walking around and chatting downtown. Thus when people talk about “cloud computing” they are talking about millions of tiny ghost towns. Ironic, because what do people build on these ghost towns but social networks.