Posting about this will have limited effectiveness, seeing as I’d put an upper limit of two on my readership total, but by that reasoning I’d never post anything. And I really need to get around to writing regularly.
I love Folklore.org.
Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form of interlinked anecdotes.
The site currently houses 118 anecdotes related to the development of the Macintosh 128K, mostly written by Andy Hertzfeld. They range from management decisions to hardware and software development to amusing incidents. Wonderful place to waste a few hours, all in the name of history.
Currently, the Folklore site only supports a single project, about the development of the original Macintosh, but that will be changing soon.
This hint of things to come has been on the about page for more than four years, but no sign of a new project ever surfaced. Further, it’s been ages since the last story was added to the site (unfortunately, the stories don’t include time of posting, so I don’t know exactly how long, or even which story is the most recent).
So imagine my surprise when my RSS reader alerted me to the publication of a new story, intriguingly titled “This is a test.” Perhaps it could be a harrowing tale of how a Macintosh prototype was tested for critical functionality but violently failed!
This is a placeholder story to test entering new stories. I hope that it works…
Or perhaps not. But the project that the placeholder story is filed in is interesting, because it’s not “The Original Macintosh,” but rather “The Newton, The First PDA.” So it seems that Folklore.org is being revived with stories about the development of Apple’s unsuccessful device. Exciting times we live in.
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