[wrycoder]

This group blew up very suddenly, leaving a lot of unfinished work. They didn't even properly release the work they had done on GitHub or someplace similar. It's just not like Alan Kay to do that.

https://awarth.blogspot.com/

Note that Warth's name is missing from the 2012 STEPS report.

Piumarta went to Japan.

There's something we don't know.

For a bit of follow-on, there is Alex Warth's homepage:

http://www.tinlizzie.org/~awarth/

[e12e]

I had a brief look at Alan Kay's most recent comments here - but couldn't find much about VPRI in particular - I was hoping maybe there'd been some post mortem that I'd missed - but doesn't appear so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay

[wrycoder]

There was a mail list for the project, and no answer ever appeared there, either, despite requests for updates. Very strange.

[wrycoder]

Edit: chubot found Amelang's github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26927698

Going up a level, there is Gezira and Nile. The latter includes Maru with changes through Dec 2012. Piumarta kept committing changes to Maru through Nov 2013. piumarta.net is, sadly, unresponsive today.

So, it appears that Dan Amelang was able to capture the core of the STEPS project at github. I don't see anything about the UI or Frank, though.

[coolgeek]

> piumarta.net is, sadly, unresponsive today

Did you want piumarta.com, which somebody else linked above? It's got pages for COLA and MARU

[wrycoder]

You are right. That's my mistake!

[david927]

HARC also seemed to end suddenly. I was never able to get any details on why.

[seltzered_]

Vague memory is funding dried up. Vi Hart has some storytelling touching on CDG / HARC history: https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/