== Family ==
Joseph has a niece who works at a hospital. He used to have a cat, who which passed away at some point after he was in university.
Per the {{V== Name &A}}, his niece was originally intended to, at various points in the game, install games on his computer which players could interact with.development ==
== Name ==Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" 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 – notably 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.
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