h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>> Someone gave SoRB a link to Justin's YouTube account, and congratulated Steve on his graphics rendering skills.

Sorvooloo was actually convincing enough as Steve the Programmer that he fooled one of the Italics (Jimster, I think?) which lead to his eventual outing.

I was just finding my way around the site at that point so it must have been early-mid 2003 or thereabouts.

Steve the programmer: U197974

>> Sorvooloo was actually convincing enough as Steve the Programmer that he fooled one of the Italics

He rang me to tell me that JtP was an artefact programmed by StP and what did I think of that then! In fact, he may have sent me the link.

I said that the AI / Turing machine side of it was plausible, or plausible enough for me anyway, but the idea of a bot roaming the internet creating accounts ** and then initiating conversations unsupervised ** was less plausible. I was in Munich at the time, so it must have been 2002ish. Bots have come a long way since then, and we all know they now do just that. Like I said, that was 7 years ago.

What I didn't think to say at the time, or don't remember saying anyway, was that the idea of a bot nagivating h2g2 successfully was the least plausible thing of all.

Fun though. And mischeivous. As you'd expect.

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It was indeed 2002:

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Fnah!

"There are only about six or seven of us left at n2g2"

That's what you think!



(Sorry about the quote, Gosho)

You're making me feel old, Ben. Stop it at once.

>"There are only about six or seven of us left at n2g2"

That's what you think!



(Sorry about the quote, Gosho)<


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(Sorry about the quote, Ottox )



Actually it's just occurred to me that the smiley was actually more or less coined by LeKZ although not for her amusement as I recall

She didn't like lurkers, did she?

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