Premium Episode 30: Temple OS & Terry Davis feat Jeff Atwood (UNLOCKED!)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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UNLOCKED! Terry Davis was a schizophrenic programmer who wrote an operating system to communicate with God. We examine both Temple OS and his turbulent life — which became intertwined with forum culture & the chans. We then interview Jeff Atwood, the co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse. He talks to us about building less shitty online communities, why programmers can be pedantic, and how in 1988 he built a "war dialer" to better network with other teens in the "Warez" scene. Follow Jeff Atwood: twitter.com/codinghorror Visit patreon.com/qanonanonymous to support the podcast. For 5 bucks a month, get a premium episode every week, plus access to the back catalogue.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to the 30th Premium Chapter of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Temple
0:20.6	OS and Terry Davis episode.
0:22.7	As always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field and Travis Vue.
0:27.2	This week we are bringing you the story of Temple OS and its single-handed creator
0:31.1	and developer Terry Davis.
0:33.9	Now when I first heard of the operating system I was fascinated, mostly because of the
0:38.4	mind-boggling graphics attached to the project.
0:41.5	It's a bright mix of Dossera game graphics and contemporary art and is accompanied by
0:46.4	bizarre amounts of writing, much of it religious themed.
0:49.8	I earmarked the topic for further research and forgot about it for a few weeks.
0:54.2	As the scheduled recording date for the Temple OS episode near it I began doing some research.
0:59.5	It very quickly became clear that this would not just be an episode on a goofy programming
1:03.6	project.
1:04.9	Terry suffered from debilitating mental illness and I don't feel comfortable turning his
1:09.0	life and life work into a cheap joke.
1:12.0	Instead I'm going to attempt to paint a balanced picture of the man in his creation.
1:16.8	After that exploration we will be interviewing Jeff Atwood, he is the co-founder of Stack
1:21.7	Overflow and Discourse.org.
1:24.4	He also has a blog called Coding Horror.
1:27.1	We'll be talking about Terry, online communities and the time he was arrested in 1988 for building
1:32.6	what's called a war diolar.
1:35.4	So this week to honor Terry as well as the idea of an open and free internet.
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