Jon Schull's Weblog

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. It seems appropriate to use the web to document the development of computing technologies. Most of the principals involved are still alive and kicking, so it's possible to collect first-person accounts from the people involved, if they're willing. I decided to get the ball rolling," writes Andy Hertzfeld, "by using the most important event that I played a part in - the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer - as the subject of the first set of Folklore stories.