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Background: Aleph Null was a pseudonymous author of a column in a 1970s software journal whose identity is unknown. They wrote on many eclectic computing topics. Their true identity is still unknown. And no, this comment isn't an AI-written summary. :-)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
John Francis in the comments seems to have (correctly) uncovered the mystery, looking at the homepage given in that comment via wayback machine has a link github with commits as recent as november.
http://richard-parkins.free.nf/
Other than relying on the Wayback Machine, what are the options for keeping a site like this alive and at least minimally maintained, at its original URL?
for a second I thought they were talking about the author of https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/stack_smas... but apparently that's aleph-one.
for a second I thought they were talking about the author of https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/stack_smas... but apparently that's aleph-one.
As an aside, bit-player.org is an amazing blog and resource. Recently I've been thinking about what will happen when Brian Hayes, its author, shuffles off this mortal coil. Other than relying on the Wayback Machine, what are the options for keeping a site like this alive and at least minimally maintained, at its original URL?
Background: Aleph Null was a pseudonymous author of a column in a 1970s software journal whose identity is unknown. They wrote on many eclectic computing topics. Their true identity is still unknown. And no, this comment isn't an AI-written summary. :-)
This guy says he is Aleph Null: http://richard-parkins.free.nf/