vnetwork

Month: 2018-10

2018-10-24

patcon 10:37:01
Holy jeez, I don't think in understood the scale of the PTT.cc telnet bulletin board that is essentially the Taiwanese reddit: 500,000 posts per day... Yeesh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

PTT Bulletin Board System

PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, Chinese: 批踢踢實業坊; pinyin: Pītītī Shíyè Fāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phi-thek-thek Si̍t-gia̍p-hong, <telnet://ptt.cc>) is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS) based in Taiwan. It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995, and it is currently administrated by the Electronic BBS Research Society as a non-commercial and open-source BBS.PTT has more than 1.5 million registered users, with over 150,000 users online during peak hours. The BBS has over 20,000 boards covering a multitude of topics, and more than 20,000 articles and 500,000 comments are posted every day.

(@lisa was browsing it at the vTaiwan meeting and showed it to @lizbarry and I)
Ansin Law 16:56:19
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