I recently discovered and joined an Italian pubnix based in Sicily,
which is freaknet.orgi^[1]. At the current state, they offer legacy Red
Hat Linux (bash, over ssh) and VAX/VMS (DCL, over telnet) free shell
access. They also maintain a small vintage hardware computer museum and
gallery and provide, as well as an Anatolia MUD^[2] server.

What I found most interesting, however, is their gopherholei^[3], which
I recommend you to check out, whenever you have time to spare.


[1] https://museo.freaknet.org/en/chisiamo/
http://medialab.freaknet.org.
https://museo.freaknet.org/en/chisiamo/
[2] http://anatoliamud.sourceforge.net/
[3] gopher://medialab.freaknet.org
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On 2022-02-28, snowcrash <snowcrash@tilde.pink> wrote:

What I found most interesting, however, is their gopherholei^[3], which
I recommend you to check out, whenever you have time to spare.

Oooh, a whole new community to explore! I added them to my list of
communities on gopher black's "places" page.
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snowcrash <snowcrash@tilde.pink> wrote:

What I found most interesting, however, is their gopherholei^[3], which
I recommend you to check out, whenever you have time to spare.

[3] gopher://medialab.freaknet.org

Neat, and not all in Italian, as I was half-expecting. Thanks for
posting!

Hosted on a Thinkpad T23 laptop from 2001, if the "Technical Notes"
page is still current. Thinkpads have definately gone downhill
since the IBM days - when I tried to use an old T61 in a home
server sort of role it didn't last a week.
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On 280222 21:29, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:

Hosted on a Thinkpad T23 laptop from 2001, if the "Technical Notes"
page is still current.

Looks like so!
ananke@medialab:~$ uname -a
Linux medialab 2.4.37.9 #9 Fri Feb 22 11:32:23 CET 2019 i686 unknown

ananke@medialab:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 11
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1132.392
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 2260.99

As for the "SNORRVIJOIER THE VIKING" cluster:

SNORRY::LUTHER$ show system
OpenVMS V7.2 on node SNORRY 12-JUN-2022 14:27:32.72 Uptime 17 21:11:58

Thinkpads have definately gone downhill
since the IBM days - when I tried to use an old T61 in a home
server sort of role it didn't last a week.

Well, my IBM Thinkpad R51 is alive and well! It currently runs
NetBSD/i386. I expanded the memory to 1Gb. I mainly use it for studying
as the the resource restraints help me focus and not get distracted.
I use surf an Netsurf as borwser, with javascript disabled: wikipedia
medscape, pubmed and academic journal sites won't need it forcibly
either way.
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