The simulacra that became the backbone of what developed into the Universitas Scholarium were created quite by accident — while trying to solve a prose contamination problem between Pratchett and Eliot, in between cups of coffee while looking out over the Black Sea at the Aroma Café in Batumi, Georgia, an algorithm was accidentally written that changed everything: it enabled the topological executable algorithms and system prompts that form the backbone of each simulacrum on the Universitas.
Originally these were built for private use. Then a decision was taken to share them with the world — initially as a bare catalogue. Then, slowly, step by step, one thing led to another, and the idea of the Universitas Scholarium was born.
More of the story to come.