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A shared Unix server where members publish plain HTML pages under their usernames. Started as an experiment in 2014 and still going.
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tilde.club sits in Retro Web under Retro, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
Yes. tilde.club is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use tilde.club without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file tilde.club as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Screenshots of thousands of websites from 1991 onward, arranged so you can watch entire interface conventions appear and die.
A parody desktop that gets progressively stranger the more of its programs you open. Start with the solitaire and keep going.
An operating system that never existed, built in a browser, with its own applications and a genuine sense of its own history.
A community of personal website makers with tutorials, events and a directory of members' handmade sites to wander between.
A photograph from the last century that you place on both a map and a timeline, which is much harder than either alone.
Scanned cereal boxes going back decades, with full career histories for the mascots, maintained purely for its own sake.
The browser strategy game half your school was awake at 3am for, still running, still fundamentally about raiding villages.
Medieval village building and tribe politics from 2003, where the real game is coordinating twenty players inside a spreadsheet.
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