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It wasn't a "trend". It was Apache's way of automatically mapping a username to his home directory. I feel old.
by riiii 2y ago
It wasn't a "trend". It was Apache's way of automatically mapping a username to his home directory. I feel old.
- userbinator 2y agoI am referring to the practice of escaping the tilde.
- xelxebar 2y agoNot just Apache, but POSIX shell syntax! It's called Tilde Expansion[0], so in your dash, bash, whatever, ~USER expands to the home directory of USER. This is the general form of standard "bare tilde" syntax as a stand-in for $HOME. [0]:https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01 https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
- CalRobert 2y agoMy 90's ISP homepage URL makes more sense. inreach.net/~myusername Actually, I miss when ISP's all came with some space for simple web hosting. It was a given that a lot of people would want to make their own sites, not just consume them.
- dotancohen 2y ago> It was a given that a lot of people would want to make their own sites, not just consume them. I wouldn't say it was a given that a lot of people would want to host, but it was a given that people _could_ host. Then Geocities came along and made the hosting easy, destroying the ISP-hosting market.
- beretguy 2y agoAnd now we have Neocities.