Hi Ted,
I'm still alive. Forbes recently verified me for their list of 250 Innovators - they have a separate list for dead ones. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2026/02/11/forbes-250-americas-greatest-innovators/
I predicted that people would use DNS to distribute maps of real or virtual spaces long ago. But theory is cheap, and my hat's off to DNS over doom.