@roxmsauce We could still do it, by which I mean providing neighborhood Unix installations where people can log in and do things.

Paul Ford had something like that going a couple of years ago at https://tilde.club (story at https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf).

There's also https://sdf.org.

But these days it seems like anybody who wants to can get a cheap used amd64 computer and figure out how to install Linux/BSD, and have their own Unix, so community Unix servers seem almost pointless.