1993 USENET News group alt.os.multics started by Magnus Olsson.
- i started posting the FAQ, list of Multicians, dates, sites, features, history, bibliography, papers
- others made info available: Jeff Marracini at Oakland University; Lane A Robert at USL
- data was in FTP and Gopher

1994 Multicians website begun by Tom Van Vleck
- i thought oboy, i can put pictures on the web, like Melinda Varian did
- Mosaic was the freely the graphical web browser
- MacHTTP may have been my first server software I used
- i was working at an Apple/IBM company, had multiple Macs and network connection
- asked permission, they said "sure, don't use our name"
- set up my own web server on a spare Mac at Taligent. forget what address.
- started with converting the FAQ to web pages
--- list of Multicians, papers, etc
- much help and advice from other Multicians expecially Bernie Greenberg

- in those days every new site was an event.. creators announced each one to the world

This change will be a problem for me, if I ever get a Mac that can run Ventura.

I currently use a browser to print an HTML address book file and save it as PostScript,
and then process the .ps file with "psbook" and "psnup" (PostScript utilities from psutils installed by Homebrew)
to create a 2-up booklet, which I print 2-sided. Been doing this since Lion.

I will have to try printing to PDF instead, and run "pdf2ps" from Ghostscript, and see if that works.

J L Borges wrote the story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" describing just such a creation of alternate history, and its effect on the world.
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-Tl%C3%B6n-Uqbar-Orbius-Tertius.pdf

I think there are four things you need.
- commit to quality (has to be top to bottom)
- use systematic process (seems like you get this)
- check everything (at every stage)
- improve continuously (own your process and your meta process)
i wrote more about this at http://www.multicians.org/thvv/nasty.html

Chris Tavares wrote the original Cookie Monster program in 1970. Story is at http://www.multicians.org/cookie.html -- sounds like you used a descendant of the original. Source is available online. The program did not wander randomly: you had to start it while logged in, and it would then sleep and pop up messages later. People used to prank their co-workers when they found a terminal unattended.