The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed
Joseph Matheny, a pioneering storyteller and digital artist, discusses his creation of Ong's Hat—the internet's first alternate reality game (ARG)—and his early experiments with AI chatbots in the 1990s. Influenced by counterculture icons like Robert Anton Wilson and William S. Burroughs, M
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