Ten years later, it's still weird
Mar. 21st, 2007 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeislerI was scanning boingboing.net, which notes that next week is the 10th anniversary of the Heaven's Gate cult's group suicide, as they searched for enlightenment and a ride on a space ship flying behind comet Hale-Bopp.
You can still see the Heaven's Gate web site from 1997 (state of the art for its time, baby).
And there's a fairly dispassioned account of who the Heaven's Gate cult was on the Religious Movements web site.
I remember hearing about the suicide...and the self-mutilations the men went through (self castatration can't be pleasant)...and the fact that they were a web development company...and looking askance for a few weeks at all of the other web developers I knew.
And now, there's a green comet on the way. Could be dangerous. Lock up your web developers.
You can still see the Heaven's Gate web site from 1997 (state of the art for its time, baby).
And there's a fairly dispassioned account of who the Heaven's Gate cult was on the Religious Movements web site.
I remember hearing about the suicide...and the self-mutilations the men went through (self castatration can't be pleasant)...and the fact that they were a web development company...and looking askance for a few weeks at all of the other web developers I knew.
And now, there's a green comet on the way. Could be dangerous. Lock up your web developers.