{"id":2605,"date":"2014-10-18T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2014-10-18T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T18:16:48","slug":"tilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/tilde\/","title":{"rendered":"~tilde"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the last couple of commutes I\u2019ve been hooked by a ~.<\/strong><\/p>\n
(I am cross posting this at my mainly educational blog<\/a> and my ds106 one<\/a> because I think this is so interesting.<\/em>)<\/p>\n
It started when I read I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds<\/a> which touches on some many interesting things, online identity, ownership, internet history and made me think about about community, teaching about the web and some of the posts Jim Groom has be posting recently (\/~space<\/a> for example).<\/p>\n
The ~tilde.club<\/a> set up by Paul Ford while drinking is<\/p>\n
not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It mirrors what was the standard way to give university folk accounts and allows users to work on a remote computer through the terminal, communication and creating web pages. You will get a much better idea by reading the post<\/a> and going to ~tilde.club<\/a> and clicking some links.<\/p>\n
It looked interesting enough to have a shot, but I had arrived at the party a little late. Fortunately there are other tilde clubs springing up<\/a> and I got in to totallynuclear.club<\/a> as ~troutcolor<\/a>.<\/p>\n
All I\u2019ve done so far is created a webpage, set up a blog and visited other members pages. I had a quick chat on the commandline with ~maze<\/a> who answered some questions.<\/p>\n
Hopefully I\u2019ll use the blog<\/a> to document what I am learning as I go. I am certainly learning. I\u2019ve use a terminal now and then locally on my mac and even very occasionally to play with my Raspberry Pi, but this is quite different. I find myself strangely drawn to the process. For some of the users on the tilde clubs nostalgia is a reason for being their, I missed that whole section of computer history as I started late. Any webpage creation I\u2019ve done has been by uploading files via FTP or by using blogging software or social media. The ~tilde clubs work in both a older and modern modern way. I\u2019ve noticed similarities in the way the developers for glow blogs work, not ftp for them, they talk of git, and are often logged into some cloud server via a terminal.<\/p>\n
There are other interesting features emerging on totallynuclear and other tilde clubs I hope to get the courage up to try the IRC chat soon.<\/p>\n
What could it be good for<\/h2>\n
Apart from fun which is a good enough reason.<\/p>\n
Given that I an a teacher I wonder if this could be a good way to teach pupils\/students about the web. I don\u2019t think that there is anything Perhaps cover some technology history and web literacy. Although the technology is not very shiny and new it does feel quite exciting. It also, to some extent, remove a veil from the technology and perhaps could loosen the ties to silos.<\/p>\n
What does it look like?<\/h2>\n
This is a very short screencast just touching on the basics, which is all I know at the present.<\/p>\n