Talk:Information annealing

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[edit] Wikis?

Isn't Wikipedia (and wikis in general) an example of this? Ehn 11:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neil Larson and information annealing

Neil Larson was (and is) an independent software developer, among other things. As of this writing he still sells his software product "MaxThink" via www.maxthink.com. Contact information is on his website.

MaxThink was first offered for sale at the PC Users Conference in 1983, which was held in the Silicon Valley area of California. A "Proceedings" book was provided to all attendees, including me. [Another notable event at that conference was the debut of the world's first laptop, the DG One from Data General Corporation (it ran DOS, was battery-powered, and had a monochrome LCD display). This information is provided to assist in authentication.] I purchased MaxThink from Mr. Larson at that conference and have used his product through several updates ever since. As a customer I have received multiple newsletters titled "MaxThink Journal". The dates on those, in order, are July 1991, Winter 1991 [dated by its product information], July 1992, December 1992, December 1996 [so postmarked], and August 1997 [so postmarked]. None are copyrighted.

My updates to this Wikipedia entry are based on Larson's MaxThink Journal writings. LM6407 20:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)