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A bunch of technomancers in the fediverse. This arcology is for all who wash up upon it's digital shore.

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Erin
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@thegibson growing up I had a friend who would get games off of BBSes and we'd play them on his idk what it was, 386 probably.

Then in college I was online again and my roommate taught me many things including how to use vim, setup and manage Linux, hassle port scanners, the importance of the shadow file... I learned so much from him.

Last time I felt that wonder of discovery and exploration? Not entirely sure. I find it in my daily life. But it's been a while since the internet played a part.

undead
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Me, after making kaarage and onion rings for dinner... I hear this whispering...

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@datarama @jbarros @thegibson
"Now, one day back at Data General, his weariness focused on the logic analyzer and the small catastrophes that come from trying to build a machine that operates in billionths of a second. On this occasion, he went away from his basement and left this note on his terminal:"

"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

-- Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

rye
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@TheGibson I was hosting my first mail server for fun. I NMAP'ed some IP space. A bit later I got an email from their sysadmin requesting that I stop port scanning them.

I didn't have a domain name. They literally sent an email to my WAN address.

That unlocked something in me.