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In 2011, a writer named Julian Gough wrote a story for a friend. Though in his words, he felt as though parts of it “were somehow being written by the universe itself.” It was a poem used as the final text in a sandbox game that originated on the TIGSource forums just 2 years prior. That game would become the highest selling game of all time, but through it all, the company behind it never owned the rights to the poem. Julian just didn’t sign them away.

In 2022, Julian released the poem under a Creative Commons license. It was now in the public domain. Before long, a site dedicated to it was made available on the World Wide Web.

Through the medium of hypertext, the poem was free to be read, shared, used, and preserved by anybody willing to do so.

The universe’s words were now in the world’s hands, and it was up to the world to choose what they would be.

Thank you for reading!


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