From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Sat Jan 3 02:35:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id CAA12913; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 02:35:27 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Sat Jan 3 01:40:29 1998 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 01:39:21 -0500 Message-Id: <3Jan1998.011449.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> From: Alan Bawden To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: "A Message from Professor Erno Rubik" I just accidentally tripped across http://www.rubiks.com/. Much to my amusement the home page has a little message from Erno Rubik that begins: It is 23 years since I created the Cube, some 17 years since this simple little six-coloured object attained its great world wide appeal. I often wondered what impact the Internet would have had if it had been around at the time. Cube awareness, for one thing, would have spread even faster, aggravating the already severe Cube shortages in the market place. Suggestions and disputes about different approaches to solving it would surely have filled the screens. Amusing, unusual, interesting tales to do with the Cube would have criss-crossed the globe on the Net and intrigued mathematicians would have proposed and discussed Cube related theories on-line. Those of you who have been on this mailing list for the last 17 years will recognize this as an uncannily accurate description of exactly what -did- happen! (Except, of course, the Net was so much smaller then that we had little effect on the market place.) So accurate is Prof. Rubik's description that I'd be surprised if he (or his ghost writer) hasn't actually read through some of our earliest archives. - Alan