I’ve used it to host my personal website since I was in high school around the turn of the new millennium. At one point it was kind of popping for everyone in my grade and one of the nearby schools since I had a hidden discussion board. Pre-Fb/Myspace days. Probably full of cringe, at one point we were discussing the merits of invading Iraq versus standing by and doing nothing (lol) and anyway that was with full understanding that many of us would end up getting sent over if it happened (it did).

During college, I think I used a compiler here to test some conditions that weren’t present on my school’s Solaris system, or my own (at the time) Arch Linux system (yes, Arch Linux is a pretty old distro).

I closed the account at one point when I became a professional and built my own homelab, but then signed up again a year or so later.

Later on, at one point a decade later, I built an interface for me to remotely view my baby camera here. Which later became a security camera. Now I’ve moved on to a more secure, COTS system that not everybody in the world can find if they just knew the URL.

I have an email address going back years, so I ssh and use alpine to read those emails.

I use the Mastodon instance, and just discovered the Lemmy instance yesterday. I should probably migrate everything to the same username and bring my Pixelfed account here as well.