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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)


Posted on Monday 10 Oct 2022. 1,417 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

I could hear the hard drive spin up if somebody accessed the machine, and a little chug-chug-chug while Festival (the open source text-to-speech engine I’d installed) generated the voice. – Julian Dibbell, My Tiny Life (1998)(That link leads you to the full text, but you should buy the book(Amazon) and I don’t know just sit by the letterbox until it arrives and then INHALE it.) The_Author realizes now that during all those months he never really doubted LambdaMOO was in this box, compact, condensed, its rambling landscapes and its teeming population all somehow shrunk down to the size of The Server’s hard-disk drive.

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