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The famous Apple skunkworks project

Click here to read the infamous story of the Apple Graphics Calculator.

Most commentary I've heard on this describes it as a saga of persistence against overwhelming odds. That's true, but to me it provides great insight into the nature of how software is created, how difficult it is, and what motivates the people behind it. Anyone who builds software for a living will understand exactly why Greg Robbins and Ron Avitzur did what they did.

Start a Rumor at Rumor City

Got something the world needs to know? Tell us all about it at Rumor City.

I wrote this as an internal toy for work last weekend. This weekend I decided to make it available to the world just to see what happens. I bought the domain name www.rumorcity.com and right now it's being hosted in my basement. If it uses too much bandwidth, I'll move it to a commercial hosting company.

Many years ago I wrote a similar Win32 program and was amazed and amused at how much fun people had with it. This web version isn't quite as cool, but it has the advantage of being available from anywhere in the world. Will the jokes be as funny? Will it descend into silliness or worse? Will it inspire? Or will it just be ignored? Time will tell.

By the way, right now the program needs a recent version of IE on Windows to work. I'll fix that if it turns out to be popular.