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- Aug 1, 2017
There are a many pages on the modern internet ran by autistics who spend thousands of hours hyperfocusing on a topic and churning out tons of content related to the topic. Most of the time these obsessions fall into the common categories we're all aware of - Sonic, Pokemon, TV closing logos, etc, and we'll get amusement for a Community Watch thread.
Periodically you'll run across an outlier whose fixation is on something outside the realm of the interests of young children, and the content they create tends to be presented on a 2000s-era looking basic HTML webpage which more often than not hosts a gigantic program they've written about their obsession. They're usually not cows due to their lack of engagement with anything other than their hyperfixation and tend to go unnoticed due to this. Let's talk about them.
Nick Smith/Ullillillia (site archive) The most well-known example of this sort of thing. Well-known for his fixation on several bad videogames and decade-long masterwork 'The Platform Masters', a 2D platformer based on his very specific interests. An unreleased documentary exists about his game and his work.
Terry A. Davis - A strange religious programmer who wrote an entire 64-bit operating system from scratch. Unfortunately went completely schizophrenic and earned himself a cow thread. Died earlier this year. RIP.
Walter D. Pullen - This man fixates on labyrinths and mazes to an extreme degree and has written a massive program with its own custom scripting language to generate pretty much anything that could be roughly considered a 'maze' in some sense. Page contains a lot of genuinely useful documentation if you're in the small target audience that would ever need it.
Ishino Keiichiro - This guy's all about physical solid-object puzzles. If it's something that needs to be assembled or disassembled, this guy has probably written a program to solve it and published the solution somewhere on his site, which is nothing but a massive wall of thousands of puzzle solutions.
I'm sure there are plenty more out there. Link them if you've got em.
Periodically you'll run across an outlier whose fixation is on something outside the realm of the interests of young children, and the content they create tends to be presented on a 2000s-era looking basic HTML webpage which more often than not hosts a gigantic program they've written about their obsession. They're usually not cows due to their lack of engagement with anything other than their hyperfixation and tend to go unnoticed due to this. Let's talk about them.
Nick Smith/Ullillillia (site archive) The most well-known example of this sort of thing. Well-known for his fixation on several bad videogames and decade-long masterwork 'The Platform Masters', a 2D platformer based on his very specific interests. An unreleased documentary exists about his game and his work.
Terry A. Davis - A strange religious programmer who wrote an entire 64-bit operating system from scratch. Unfortunately went completely schizophrenic and earned himself a cow thread. Died earlier this year. RIP.
Walter D. Pullen - This man fixates on labyrinths and mazes to an extreme degree and has written a massive program with its own custom scripting language to generate pretty much anything that could be roughly considered a 'maze' in some sense. Page contains a lot of genuinely useful documentation if you're in the small target audience that would ever need it.
Ishino Keiichiro - This guy's all about physical solid-object puzzles. If it's something that needs to be assembled or disassembled, this guy has probably written a program to solve it and published the solution somewhere on his site, which is nothing but a massive wall of thousands of puzzle solutions.
I'm sure there are plenty more out there. Link them if you've got em.
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