Reintroducing Capsul

reintroducing capsul 29 Mar, 2025 capsul has a rich history. born through cyberia.club, our first server was literally cobbled together on the rooftop of my apartment complex. about 10 of us were there, perhaps a little drunk, and we covered the first 1u server in stickers. it's still around the clubhouse at layer zero - we named the server "baikal", after the deepest lake in the world, and a joke on "cyberia" sounding like "siberia". here is a picture of baikal from back then: when capsul started, it wasn't even called capsul - it was called "cvm", which stood for "cyberia virtual machines". i created virtual machines for people by hand with a small set of shell scripts, and those people paid me in cash. cvm was cool like that - covert, human, and communal. i'd take 60 bux, write it down in a spreadsheet, and spin up a VM. some vms still have a cvm- prefix internally. eventually, forest came along and blessed cvm with a self-service web interface. at this point, we renamed cvm t ... Read full article.