From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:30:29 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: some more stuff for the conspiracy chart
X-Git-Tag: fosdem-2017~15
X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=mudsync.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fad33a69e9950d70d6dd84d07f032aef236ba1af

some more stuff for the conspiracy chart
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diff --git a/worlds/bricabrac.scm b/worlds/bricabrac.scm
index 0d49355..036661c 100644
--- a/worlds/bricabrac.scm
+++ b/worlds/bricabrac.scm
@@ -1783,20 +1783,32 @@ network.")
          "There's a lot written here, but here are some of the highlights:")
       (p
        (ul
-        (li (b "Scheme") " was originally started to explore the " (b "actor model")
+        (li (b "Scheme") " "
+            (a "http://cs.au.dk/~hosc/local/HOSC-11-4-pp399-404.pdf"
+               "was originally started ")
+            " to explore the " (b "actor model")
             ". (It became more focused around studying the " (b "lambda calculus")
             " very quickly, while also uncovering relationships between the two systems.)")
         ;; Subject Predicate Object
-        (li "The " (b "ActivityPub") " protocol for " (b "federation")
+        (li "The " (a "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/"
+                      (b "ActivityPub"))
+            " protocol for " (b "federation")
             " uses the " (b "ActivityStreams") " format for serialization.  "
             (b "Text adventures") " and " (b "MUDS")
             " follow a similar structure to break down the commands of players.")
         (li (b "Federation") " and the " (b "actor model") " both are related to "
             "highly concurrent systems and both use message passing to communicate "
             "between nodes.")
+        (li "Zork, the first major text adventure, used the " (b "MUDDLE") " "
+            "language as the basis for the Zork Interactive Language.  MUDDLE "
+            "is very " (b "Scheme") "-like and in fact was one of Scheme's predecessors. "
+            "And of course singleplayer text adventures like Zork were the "
+            "predecessors to MUDs.")
         (li "In the 1990s, before the Web became big, " (b "MUDs")
             " were an active topic of research, and there was strong interest "
-            "in building decentralized systems similar to what is being "
+            (a "http://www.saraswat.org/desiderata.html"
+               "in building decentralized MUDs")
+            " similar to what is being "
             "worked on for " (b "federation") ". "
             "(See the network spaces desiderata document.)")))))