Early Concept & History


Long before Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland came to Interval Research Corporation, they were working on the idea that evolved into Placeholder:

Groundwork

Backyard Transformations May '90

Musings November '90

Playground Proposal December '90
--Unfortunately, the Apple Vivarium project declined to grant us permission to re-publish this proposal. Sadly, this materiel will not be generally available to those who wish to trace the genisis of the ideas in Placeholder. This is the *only* document in this entire archive for which such permission was refused. -RT-


January '92 Banff Proposal

Cover page

Virtual Coyote

Coyote world notes

Indian symbol stories

Notes



As soon as Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland arrived at Interval Research Corporation they hit the ground running, and began serious planning and preparation for actually implementing the project...

List of whizzies June 4 '92

Glyphs & GoddessesOctober 10 '92

Placemarks December 23 '92 notes

Magic Circle February 26 '92

Seminar notes March 3 '92

Meanwhile March 3 '92

To Lucinda June 24 '92




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