{"id":4311,"date":"2014-12-01T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2014-11-06T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:40:06","slug":"linked-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1000-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/linked-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1000-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Medium:<\/a> (I feel like everyone blogs on this site now)<\/p>\n

It was pretty late at night. I had two pieces due for Businessweek, so I should have gone to bed right then. No one would have held me to my promise. But look. The kids were in bed. It doesn\u2019t take long to set up computers in the cloud. You can do it even when you\u2019re one or two sheets to the wind. I booted up Amazon\u2019s cheapest and weakest fragment of a cloud computer. You do this by clicking buttons in a web page. I logged in to my new computer, made a few user accounts, and fired up a web server. This computer ran a Unix-based operating system. It was located somewhere in Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n

I went to bed. When I woke up 100 people were asking for accounts.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This post has everything, Nostalgia, Nerdy Geek-dom and it\u2019s a site you can join or start your own. I own my own server and barely maintain it beyond keeping it secure from hackers. My site needs some cosmetic work so Tilde.club isn\u2019t for me but to see such a huge support for it is incredible. We need more ownership over our own domain (literally) away from the bucketed Internet of clouds and social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Medium: (I feel like everyone blogs on this site now) It was pretty late at night. 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