Subject: 1.5, 2, 3 or 4 Dimensions ?

From: "Jim Fleming" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:20:07 -0600

ASCII forever. Cursing all the way.     --Charlie Kaufman
     ([email-masked])

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Charlie,

I understand your frustration. ASCII is a one and one-half
dimensional format. Some people are trying to push the
world into 2 dimensions. Some of us have been using 3
dimensions for a long time. A few of us have moved on to
4 dimensions, where time is included with the information.
To view those documents, you have to "fly" through the
various three dimensional spaces. If you want to see it in
real life, you are welcome to visit UNIR. It is all there in
front of you on your vPC. <http://www.activeworlds.com>
All you have to do is look. As you will see, we aren't in
Kansas any more and ASCII is a minor piece of the puzzle.

Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

P.S. You might want to read Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.
He published that in 1884, 100 years before Orwell's 1984.
Abbott trys to show people living in a three dimensional
world what it is like to live in two dimensions, and also one
and then trys to take people from 3 dimensions and move
them to four. People do not like change. It is too bad the
IETF does not encourage change.
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