Articles / Who did you kiss?
   God help us...

       When you give technology to women, strange things start to happen.
   23-year-old Lish Daelnar from California has created a huge scheme
   that shows the sex relationships that occur in cyberspace.

       Picture a kiddie connect-the-dot puzzle on which some sardonic
   5-year-old has connected every dot, a total of about 1,400 dots, to
   every other dot, and you might have an idea of what the Sexchart looks
   like. The Sexchart is a little underground Internet project that tells
   you two things about computer people: They aren't as abstinent as you
   might have guessed, and they're more obsessive than you'd ever
   imagined.

       SexChart is done in ASCII - using only standard terminal symbols,
   with no graphics whatsoever. It is about 46 kilobytes [that's about
   48,000 symbols] and surely is a work of modern art. It is obvious that
   miss Daelnar has spent quite some time working on her hobby - she has
   been adding new personas every month starting in 1997.

       Everyone on the chart is identified by his or her IRC nickname. If
   the two names are interconnected with a dashed line, it means that
   there were at least some kisses between them, or something more
   interesting. In the middle of the chart is it's author - Crank - with
   more than twenty connections going to her. It's not a record - for
   example, Haji has nearly forty connections. From looking at this
   chart, one may deduct that Californians spend their lives kissing and
   picking up new dates on IRC. Lish says that her chart has been a
   reason for breakups several times. But "its for the better".

       In an interview with Wired News, Lish Daelnar said that she has
   created the chart so that she would be featured in the Wired. In the
   future, Lish wants to make the scheme global. However, for that she
   will need to get some help from programmers - as of now, the scheme is
   updated by hand, in a text editor.

       Click here to see the full Scheme.