User talk:Thoth008

Neil Shapiro

I received the following from Wiki and have complied....

<<I suggest you copy just the reliable published 3rd party sources <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:rs> and "Neil Shapiro" to your user talk page at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Thoth008> - not the article text. This will allow 3rd parties to find the sources when they do a search, and write an article sourced from them.

Then replace all the text at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Shapiro> with

while logged in as Thoth008 - this is a nomination to have the article deleted very quickly and easily with minimal conflict of interest drama. -- Jeandré du Toit -- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org>>

The sources for an article concerning my self would be:

Dennis Brothers original proposal http://darcs.informatimago.com/tools/formats/documentation/MacBinary_Standard

Gary B. Little proposal http://www.nulib.com/library/old-binary2-spec.htm

MacBinary II Conference on 6/21/87 http://web.textfiles.com/computers/macbin2.txt

Best interview and primary source http://db.tidbits.com/article/5754

Macintosh 100 Awards 1986

I'd also suggest that any editor look at the page I deleted having done an autobiography before being familiar with your rules.

Thoth008 (talk) 16:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently that page has been deleted and lost? This is what I originally wrote...

Neil Shapiro (1947 --) helped establish personal computing and online communities with the general public.

As the Electronics Editor on POPULAR MACHANICS Magazine from 1976 through 1984 he wrote many of the first reviews of personal computers including the Apple II and IBM PC. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/04/12/pm-compares-6-top-computers/?Qwd=./PopularMechanics/1-1982/top_6_computers&Qif=top_six_ six_computers_3.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis

He was also involved through his monthly column THE ELECTRONICS MONITOR in popularizing the then-new filed of computer gaming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Bismarck

In 1964, on the debut of the Macintosh, he left POPULAR MECHANICS to become the founding Editor-in-Chief of MACUSER Magazine. He guided MACUSER through its first two years and then became the world's first, full-time Forum Manager on any commercial network. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/sept97/msnmgrpr.mspx

He had founded the MAUG Forums in 1980 opening the Apple II Forum (MAUG was an acronym for MicroNetworked Apple Users Group as MicroNet was the first name of the CompuServe Information Services network). The Apple II Forum was one of the first two Forums opened by CompuServe. He opened the Macintosh area on CompuServe in 1984 shortly after the debut of the Macintosh. The Macintosh Forum quickly became a constellation of Forums: MacSys (Macintosh System Forums), MacComm (Macintosh Communications Forum), MacApp (Macintosh Applications Forum), MacFun (Macintosh Fun and Games Forum) and MacCom (Macintosh Telecommunications Forum) as well as various vendor Forums. At its peak the MAUG group of Forums had more than fifteen subsidiary Forums and a staff of more than thirty system operators. Membership was estimated by industry sources at well over a million.

In 1986 the Editors of THE MACINTOSH BUYERS GUIDE awarded him "The Macintosh 100 Award" which was given (quoted from the award certificate) "The Macintosh Community's most important people, products and companies...."

In 1986 the Macintosh had no way of uploading and downloading software due to it then-unique icons and resource fork. Shqapiro called together representatives from all of the then-most-popular networks (CompuSreve, Delphi and BIX) as well as from companies which manufactured modems and terminal programs to try to come up with a standard for Macintosh file transfers -- MacBinary. They had a series of online meetings. A year later he called the MacBinary II Conference which met twice online during the months of June and July in that year. Shapiro chaired all of the various meetings. A partial list of participants is:

Dennis Brothers Peter Olson/Delphi Larry Loeb/BIX Neil Shapiro/CompuServe Mark Hagerman Yves Lempereur Michael Pester William Bond Bill Steinberg Don Brown Bill Davis Jean Hess Scott Watson Clay Maeckel Harry Chesley Jack Brindle Raines/BMUG Harry Conover Chris Allen

The conferences resulted in the MIME type "application/x-macbinary."

http://web.textfiles.com/computers/macbin2.txt http://stason.org/TULARC/os-macintosh/communications/08-a-What-are-AppleSingle-and-AppleDouble-b-What-is-MacBinary http://www.nulib.com/library/old-binary2-spec.htm http://darcs.informatimago.com/tools/formats/documentation/MacBinary_Standard

In 2000 - 2002 Shapiro made a number of unsuccessful attempts to re-establish MAUG after leaving CompuServe. The first in 1999 with Joe Reynolds, another alumnus of CompuyServe who ran the Outdoors Forums, with a startup called Forums America. In 2000-2001 Shapiro teamed with Dan Shafer (of salon.com and Z-Net) and became vice-president of Community for the WeTalk Network.

http://db.tidbits.com/article/5754 http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56248117.html

Shapiro is no longer associated with online communities other than as a member of many. He is self-emploted now selling rare and used books via venues such as Biblio, Abebooks and Alibris on the net. His present company is BookHobby.Com (http://www.bookhobby.com) although he has stated he would like to someday return to online community building.

Thoth008 (talk) 17:27, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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