And I guess my point is. For the firstt some decades, while they weren't exactly bound by secrecy, I think they had some obscurity, and were just doing their things in private (which involved things like bare metal assembly, building an operating system, doing embedded work, retrocomputing, etc). Not exactly sure, but from what I gather the appearances they had with media, awards etc. were relatively recent
But when a younger member of the family published nanochess [0] and other entries to IOCCC [1] they gained international notoriety
In any case, see also the history page [2] in the family website for context
Thank you so much again for introducing me to this. The closest thing I was aware of, or at least most aligned with my interests previously was permacomputing, and maybe CollapseOS; the community aspect is really cool and something I'd like to explore more alongside my artistic intent.
But when a younger member of the family published nanochess [0] and other entries to IOCCC [1] they gained international notoriety
In any case, see also the history page [2] in the family website for context
[0] http://nanochess.org but see repositories in https://github.com/nanochess for other projects
[1] https://www.ioccc.org/
[2] http://www.biyubi.com/eng_historia.html