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	Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ("Weizenbaum" is German for "wheat tree"), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA\|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)\|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (similar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games.		Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ("Weizenbaum" is German for "wheat tree"), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA\|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)\|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist (similar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games.