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The Midnight Pub
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI am honestly surprised at the lack of abuse this service is getting, as a recent post to HN about a similar service offered an email-to-post service, was stuffed full of spam posts. I love the URL-as-a-real-place concept too, makes me think back to old Geocities URLs.
- gregjw 5y agoI assume the posts are manually vetted. Don't jinx them haha!
- gregjw 5y agoThis is neat.
- dopidopHN 5y agoThere is a whole small internet build on Gemini. I host a site for free with a random French at “unbon.cafe”, I sent him a ssh key and now I can push file in folder; that it. I have a Gemini site up and running. The whole thing is manual , Simple and quaint.
- NhanH 5y agoThis is using Gemini as the primary protocol, in case anyone missed it: https://midnight.pub/manual https://midnight.pub/manual
- darekkay 5y ago> Just head over to your account page, and click the "Theme" link. Feel free to inject any CSS you'd like in there. This reminds me of the MySpace era :)
- blondin 5y agothis is an amazing concept imo. this virtual city they created made me feel very nostalgic about the early days of the web.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoVery neat. ("The Midnight Pub resides in A Small Alley on Main Street in Nightfall City: https://main-street.nightfall.city/small-alley/ https://main-street.nightfall.city/small-alley/")
- ta_ca 5y agothere is also [0] which you can also view using a gemini client [0] https://cosmic.voyage/ https://cosmic.voyage/
- carlivar 5y agoIt reminds me more of BBS days, Usenet, gopher, and a touch of Infocom.
- throwawayboise 5y agoI visited this site last year and it had a completely different look and feel. I almost thought maybe some CSS or JS wasn't loading and I was seeing an unenhanced version, but it's been rebuilt on a new platform. Had not really heard about gemini before....
- dopidopHN 5y agoGemini is a small and human world. Human in the sense of hand crafted.
- every 5y agoThis reminds me of a USENET newsgroup (can't remember the name) that I frequented decades ago. It was a bar/pub/dive of some sort. Patrons adopted an appropriate personae and sat around musing over their adult beverage of choice about the world. Everything old is new again...
- RGamma 5y agoAs it should!
- empressplay 5y agoI really miss the mid-1990s when I used to browse the web via a Lynx client on the local Freenet using my $20 turbo XT. Much simpler times!
- TacticalCoder 5y agoWhat's a "turbo XT"? A IBM XT was, what, a 8088 CPU? On which kind of OS was lynx running on a 8088? I remember running Lynx on Linux using slow modems but these were 386 and 486 PCs. I wonder what was that "turbo XT".
- snypher 5y agoIt had a Turbo button and we made sure it was always on. As to what it did, none of us really knew. But it was on, and there was a problem if it was off. So even if it wasn't connected to anything inside the beige tower it still made things better.
- Stratoscope 5y agoMaybe it worked like the Magic Switch: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
- teddyh 5y agoIf the turbo button is off, the PC is clocked to run slower. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2q02Bxtqds
- dredmorbius 5y agoCounterintuitively, a button on i-286 through i-486 processor systems which when activated slowed the CPU clock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
- rzzzt 5y agoThe NEC V20 and other 8088 compatibles could run at 8 or 10 MHz as opposed to the standard 4.77 MHz. I guess it had one of those.
- unixhero 5y agoLoved it For instance posts by "torpor"
- tux3 5y agoAw, I spent a bit of time composing a reply and got a Forbidden page. Feature request: Hide the reply box if I should not be able to reply =)
- nynx 5y agoI love this idea — a sort of virtual location that takes the place of cafes and bookstores that no longer exist in the real world. I've given some thought as to how VR could be applied to something like this and, furthermore, how an IRC-esq protocol for VR rooms and characters could work. I'm waiting for WebXR to advance a bit more before trying to implement it myself, but I'd be really interested in community discussion of the idea.
- desertraven 5y agoI’m very interested in this space also. Especially living remotely, I find HN to be my primary place for meeting like minded people. Even when I go to cities, intentional spaces for people to openly discuss ideas and collaborate aren’t really promoted. The layout of venues doesn’t really encourage this either.
- nynx 5y agoAbsolutely. Do you work in a relevant area?
- desertraven 5y agoI’m a freelance software/web dev. Have no experience with VR/AR/MR, mainly because I’ve not felt it to be quite there yet. That may be changing though. How about you?
- xwdv 5y agoAt first I thought this was some sort of collaborative fiction world building thing then got a little sad when I saw it was basically any random blog posts people want to write.