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SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

105 points · 27 comments · kmstout

  1. chancitag · · focus · HN ↗
    Love SDF. They run some great services for members, like a mastodon instance and pixelfed.
    1. wrxd · · focus · HN ↗
      These are really cool services but to have a proper blast from the past you need to ssh in and join the chat on com or the discussions on bboard
      1. TedDoesntTalk · · focus · HN ↗
        ssh? Don’t you mean telnet?
        1. yjftsjthsd-h · · focus · HN ↗
          SSH is 30 years old; it's fine
          1. mulderc · · focus · HN ↗
            Telnet is just a better name though.
            1. yjftsjthsd-h · · focus · HN ↗
              Is it? I don't get any intuitive connection from "telnet" to "shell access over the network", personally. Although, by the same token I would be open to reusing the rsh name; "remote shell" does seem obvious.
              1. mulderc · · focus · HN ↗
                Telnet sounds cooler.
              2. TedDoesntTalk · · focus · HN ↗
                Because telnet was not originally shell access over the network. It was a serial connection.
    2. jmclnx · · focus · HN ↗
      Plus you can easily setup your own Gopher and/or Gemini site and you can have your WEB site there too.

      FWIW, I migrated my WEB Site to Gemini with Gopher as a mirror. Maintaining those on SDF is far easier than maintaining via *panels.

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