Got to meet a couple of people who are kinda heroes of mine of the decentralized compsci history space at this conference (Internet Identity Workshop)
- Randal Farmer of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game) which yes, you read right, was a graphical MMO that ran on *commodore 64 machines* in the 1980s (!!)... he had a copy with him and I got to play an actual, running version (it's been released as free software!) https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs//
- Carl Hewitt of the actor model (!!!!!!!)
@snoothy Yes indeed!
@snoothy btw for anyone who isn't familiar with Habitat, I highly recommend watching the original advertisement from 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc
Yes, this is a graphical MMO *in 1985* on *a commodore 64*
More on Habitat and Electric Communities http://www.crockford.com/ec/
And yes, object capabilities came *from implementing massively multiplayer games*
@cwebber habitat is free software now??? aaaa wow!