A Little History of the Dark Side
By Jason Newquist ~ Sun, 16 Oct 2005
Most of the people who would later constitute Nocturne Research all knew
each other from a colossal time-wasting fad among college geeks in the 1990s
called MUSHing. How remarkable it was,
back in those days, to interact in real time with people all over the world.
But college led to marriage, marrige led to real jobs, and real jobs led
to no more massive time-wasting online enterprises. But the idea of
maintaining a place where people could hang out and chat persisted until
Jason purchased a Sun Sparc 1 server, with 32MB of RAM and precious
little hard disk space -- and hooked it up to his home dialup connection in
February, 1996. A few weeks passed before he emailed his domain
name registration to the Inter NIC. It was accepted, and on March 17,
nocturne.org was born.
Nocturne would change servers many times - and is about to again - but
in each instance, it would live in a closet and be fed through a domestic
internet connection.
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Jason Newquist
By Jason Newquist ~ Sun, 16 Oct 2005
Born in the middle Nixon Years, Jason Newquist would be the first of two
Newquists born unto that generation. He would spend all his formative
years in the San Francisco Bay Area, rebelling against the liberal
establishment by modeling himself after TV's youthful Republican elitist
Alex P. Keaton. Later in highschool, Jason would trade in his
subscription to the Wall Street Journal for a ticket to ride with the
theater crowd.
And there, in December, 1989, at a cast party, he met his future wife. He
would be cured of his theatrical obsessions before going to college at UC
Davis in 1990. After 2 years, Eon joined him, and 2 years after that,
they would marry.
Jason would spend some time during and after graduation working at various
campus libraries before, in late 1995, he was hired by Netcom, the
"Leading Internet Service Provider", down in San Jose. His connection
was someone he knew online through a text-based internet game called a
"MUSH". In March of 1996, Nocturne Research was formed.
Jason moved among a few tech companies, and was laid off twice during the
collapse of the Internet Economy in 2001. Thus scorned, he had an affair
with aeroastro, and participated in Mission Operations for NASA's
Gravity Probe-B mission for
several years, at which point he returned to tech. He's currently
working for an obscure hole-in-the-wall.
But all this, it seems, is something of a sidebar. After using the finest
medical technology available to mankind, Jason and Eon became the proud
owners of ultrasound pictures of 3 simultaneous feti. Time would reveal
them to be male in gender, all three. In June of 2004, the creatures
emerged, were named Isaac, Jack, and Henry, and everything changed.
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Tanya Klowden
By Tanya Klowden ~ Sun, 16 Oct 2005
Challenging the conventions of 99.834% of humanity, Tanya
Klowden makes her home in Los Angeles (although she was once
spotted in London for far longer than a tourist is allowed
to be there). She spends much of her time being a wife,
mother, and responsible pet owner and occupies the remainder
with ancient handcrafts, promotion of the new technological age, and a
healthy dollop more activism than she recalls signing up for. Her
greatest hopes for the future include a manned mission to Mars and that
her children will overcome their fear of her vacuum droid.
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Nocturnia
By Tanya Klowden ~ Sun, 16 Oct 2005
Welcome to the new Nocturne Research homepage. I know your stay will be
necessarily short. Happily, we are as content-intesive as ever we were. In
case you're curious, here is out perpetual cast of players.
There's a reason nobody has done a reality show about thirtysomething
computer geeks.
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