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by jcreed
815 days ago
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oh hey Vanyel! I may not have been as heavily involved in Agora per se, but I was a member for a time (as "Pascal") and absolutely feel the same way about internet Nomic in the 90s being a cherished formative experience for me, both in terms of igniting a love for playing with formal systems --- and also I think it was the reason I learned Perl. And about Spivak pronouns, and strange daylight-saving timezone exceptions in the united states. (Kelly being in Indiana --- come to think of it, was it em who you inherited the perl scripts from?) I think I ended up experimenting with other more minimal-initial-ruleset systems later on, Micronomic/Macronomic? Good times in any case. Thanks a ton for your archival work, and thanks to everyone involved for making a kid's life more interesting in those heady early-internet days. |
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> Spivak pronouns
Yes, also formative (I was extremely comfortable with gender-neutral pronouns by the time they went a bit more mainstream).
> Kelly ... inherited the perl scripts from
It was indeed! And we're still in touch—she got married to Lee (also from Agora) and both of them are still working doing tech stuff. Probably not many perl scripts though. :D