fare, zooko, and vyzo booted the first prototype (yeah, we are all blackhats around here, get over it).

feeley, mflatt, and eli +1.

so who is that vyzo guy?

Hia name is John von Neumann. You might have heard of his gp.

So wgat happens next?

In the beginning was the command line.
But what has no beginning has no end.

As I was telling zooko before we erased facebook back in S0pA day, over time the origin of the system becomes unknowable.

-- 0l