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Tangential: 1. Simon Tatham is the author of PuTTY 2. In the early days of the web, many people's personal sites were hosted on shared computers (e.g. my firs
by rahimnathwani 2y ago
Tangential:
1. Simon Tatham is the author of PuTTY
2. In the early days of the web, many people's personal sites were hosted on shared computers (e.g. my first was on my university's DEC Ultrix system). The URLs started with a reference to the user's home directory. This page is hosted on a machine that has a page to lists all the user's home pages: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/users.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/users.html
3. The home page has this awesome spam detector:
If you want not to be able to send mail here in future, please send mail to tabasco@chiark.greenend.org.uk.
- vermilingua 2y ago2a. The machine name (chiark) is a reference to The Player of Games, a fantastic book in the excellent Culture series by Iain M. Banks
- ben_w 2y ago4. Domain created: 1985-07-24 It predates the web by about 4 years, the publication of the first HTML standard by about 6 years, and it just had its 39th birthday.