Higher Intellect Blog

As part of our 2026 update to preterhuman.net infrastructure, we are implementing a redesign of numerous parts of the Higher Intellect network including all of our wiki deployments.

While we usually wait until all necessary skins and extensions are updated to be fully compatible with each new major stable MediaWiki version, we’re doing an expedited roll out of MediaWiki 1.44.0 across the four wikis being run on preterhuman.net.

Higher Intellect began with one vision in mind: the preservation of knowledge being housed within a freely accessible digital library.

There has never been an official philosophy of the Higher Intellect project as it was more or less started on a whim in the late 1990s, with no long term plan other than to continue adding to the archive.

As we reach the end of 2024, there have been a few major changes in the way that preterhuman.net operates.

A number of the big box software titles I keep in my personal collection have some relevance to my past.

The Apple Macintosh LC 475 has been a personal favorite of mine for years, and the reason for this goes way back into the early 1990s when I first got to use one in my school’s computer lab.

Many years ago, probably around 2002-2003, I had the opportunity to raid a local computer store’s e-waste pile where people would drop off unwanted computer items behind their store.

This is my second video about Apple’s Copland operating system, and I plan on doing more coverage on the other builds sometime in the future.

Recently had the opportunity to spend some time looking at the Wang Professional Computer for Paul’s Old Crap on YouTube.