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[Michael Mulhern]

Ok, I’m jealous. 10m down. Looks like I’ll have excavate a sub-bunker
beneath the 8BitBunker.

I’ll check out your site later.

//m

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 9:23 am, Carlo Pisani via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> > I guess I might as well ask, since I've been wondering: What does the
> name
> > "downthebunker" mean?
> > Is it a reference to something? I'm not even sure how a bunker could be
> gone "down"
>
> the computer room is located 10 meters underground in a room which
> looks like a mini bunker. But it's not relevant, it's just a name for
> a website.
>
> > And why the .xyz TLD? I don't know much about it
> > but it always looks really sketchy to me.
>
> When you put a server to the internet you have an IP and you want to
> be reached by an URL you have to pay someone for the service. We found
> a cheap service offering a domain, and the "xyz," is what they offered
> for the lowest price possible (10 euro/year) since dot com and dot org
> cost more money (50-100 or more).
>
> We already pay for the electricity and we are not hosting any
> advertising service, thus .. a cheap domain is what we consider "good"
> for us.
>
> What is really worrying is the number of spammers attacking the
> server(1) and the fact that people are not seriously using a resource,
> sometimes for the reason that we are obliged to declare the GPDR
> agreement, or for the reason, we are not offering HTTPS.
>
> Some of these guys are on facebook where they claim the platform is
> even more difficult to be used for the purpose of discussing things
> rather than ... watching a gallery of pics
>
> And some of them still want a bazaar, sort of (person-to-person) way
> to sell/buy/trade retro computer stuff, but then they only go to the
> eBay, complaining that it's too expensive for both the seller and the
> buyer (due to the money you have to give to eBay, I guess).
>
> That's the time it was, funny and weird at the same time.
>
> (1) this caused a few services to be dropped, e.g. we needed to drop
> the MessageWall because it was bombarded by spam and trolling.
> MessageWall was implemented in PHP by us and it was not so robust,
> therefore we are now limiting the usage and offering a chat channel on
> Discord which is more robust and managed by others.
>
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