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== Life and work ==
Joseph created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" in 1985, shown in the (text) [[museum ]] near the [[Márquez Farmhouse]]. In the [[Rust Archives]] , two sets of samples are under Joseph's name: "Mexico City, VAM Station Wagon, 1974" and "Elizabethtown, Kinetic Sculpture, 1968."
== Family ==
Joseph has a niece who works at the a hospital.
== Name ==
Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" is German for meaning "wheat tree"in German), 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 – notablysimilar 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.
