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Life & fun · September 16, 2022

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A Search Engine for the Tildeverse

The tildeverse is the name for a loose community of public access unix systems inspired by Paul Ford's famous tilde.club essay. These little communities are built up around shared access to a single unix system, utilizing its native multi-user properties almost as a retro social network. Over time, the communities have grown and folks published handmade pages that have the vibe of the early WWW days. I built a search engine to let everyone find things on this quirky part of of the net. Enjoy!

In plain words

A Search Engine for the Tildeverse is a search tool designed to index and help users discover content across the tildeverse, a community of public access Unix systems inspired by tilde.club. These systems function as retro social networks where users share handmade webpages with an early internet aesthetic. The search engine makes it easier to navigate and explore this niche corner of the web, allowing people to find pages and content created across the various tildeverse communities.

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