New Year, new Wikipedia list.
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I helped a man at Drop-In Time start shifting his tech processes from his iPad to his laptop. His desktop was a background of many years of Vermont Life covers. He had a bit of a hand tremor so I set him up with a bigger cursor and showed him how speech-to-text worked. When I worked with someone else she said "Do you know who that WAS?" I did not. Turns out it was Tom Slayton, retired longtime editor of Vermont Life. No Wikipedia page (til now). An honor to write it.
@jessamyn you do the coolest things
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I helped a man at Drop-In Time start shifting his tech processes from his iPad to his laptop. His desktop was a background of many years of Vermont Life covers. He had a bit of a hand tremor so I set him up with a bigger cursor and showed him how speech-to-text worked. When I worked with someone else she said "Do you know who that WAS?" I did not. Turns out it was Tom Slayton, retired longtime editor of Vermont Life. No Wikipedia page (til now). An honor to write it.
Avoided Apple news and Wordpress news by spending this rainy afternoon learning about Joseph Mikulec, a Croatian man who became naturalized in America and spent his life walking all over the world #AsOneDoes and collecting autographs in a huge book. He died with no money (having bequeathed his book for $2500 some years before) and the book sold in 2025, to the mayor of his Croatian hometown, for $225 K. When I say book, you really can't imagine....
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Avoided Apple news and Wordpress news by spending this rainy afternoon learning about Joseph Mikulec, a Croatian man who became naturalized in America and spent his life walking all over the world #AsOneDoes and collecting autographs in a huge book. He died with no money (having bequeathed his book for $2500 some years before) and the book sold in 2025, to the mayor of his Croatian hometown, for $225 K. When I say book, you really can't imagine....
@jessamyn nice picture too!
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I helped a man at Drop-In Time start shifting his tech processes from his iPad to his laptop. His desktop was a background of many years of Vermont Life covers. He had a bit of a hand tremor so I set him up with a bigger cursor and showed him how speech-to-text worked. When I worked with someone else she said "Do you know who that WAS?" I did not. Turns out it was Tom Slayton, retired longtime editor of Vermont Life. No Wikipedia page (til now). An honor to write it.
@jessamyn so cool to read the Wikipedia page of a living legend in real time!
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Avoided Apple news and Wordpress news by spending this rainy afternoon learning about Joseph Mikulec, a Croatian man who became naturalized in America and spent his life walking all over the world #AsOneDoes and collecting autographs in a huge book. He died with no money (having bequeathed his book for $2500 some years before) and the book sold in 2025, to the mayor of his Croatian hometown, for $225 K. When I say book, you really can't imagine....
A friend was watching Hyperland, a movie from 1990. She noticed a bit from a woman, Amanda Goodenough, who had created a hypercard deck that was also an interactive childrens' story. Turns out it was probably the first interactive digital story when it came out, in 1987. Thanks to the miracle of digital archiving and emulating, we can interact with that same story, in nearly the same way, 40 years later. And I wrote a short Wikipedia article about Amanda. (Thanks Dinah!)
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A friend was watching Hyperland, a movie from 1990. She noticed a bit from a woman, Amanda Goodenough, who had created a hypercard deck that was also an interactive childrens' story. Turns out it was probably the first interactive digital story when it came out, in 1987. Thanks to the miracle of digital archiving and emulating, we can interact with that same story, in nearly the same way, 40 years later. And I wrote a short Wikipedia article about Amanda. (Thanks Dinah!)
@jessamyn Well, this rules.
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A friend was watching Hyperland, a movie from 1990. She noticed a bit from a woman, Amanda Goodenough, who had created a hypercard deck that was also an interactive childrens' story. Turns out it was probably the first interactive digital story when it came out, in 1987. Thanks to the miracle of digital archiving and emulating, we can interact with that same story, in nearly the same way, 40 years later. And I wrote a short Wikipedia article about Amanda. (Thanks Dinah!)
@jessamyn Good stuff, but Racter was released in 1984, and of course Adventure in 1976 and Eliza in 1964...
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@jessamyn Good stuff, but Racter was released in 1984, and of course Adventure in 1976 and Eliza in 1964...
@jessamyn and yes, Hyperland is a blast, and free to watch on archive.org!
https://archive.org/details/HyperlandBBSDouglasAdamsAndTomBaker1990
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@jessamyn Good stuff, but Racter was released in 1984, and of course Adventure in 1976 and Eliza in 1964...
@grvsmth Yeah I suspect this has to do with the difference in implication between "story" and "game" maybe? Like I used to play Adventure when I was that age and it was a different sort of thing from what Goodenough was doing.
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@grvsmth Yeah I suspect this has to do with the difference in implication between "story" and "game" maybe? Like I used to play Adventure when I was that age and it was a different sort of thing from what Goodenough was doing.
@jessamyn It's the difference betwen a second person story and a third person one. I also always squint a little when I hear games described as "interactive fiction." But that's why the first thing that came to my mind was Racter, which was third person!
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