Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim?

7 pointsRyanMcGreal5 comments

Mark Pilgrim, the celebrated author of Dive Into HTML5, Dive Into Python and other programming books disappeared from the internet about a month ago [1]. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what happened to him.

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-mark-pilgrim/

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Also curious about this, i loved both of those works and was sad to see them disappear.

I know the HTML5 one has been re-hosted in a few places, not sure about the Python one... regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pilgrim's amazing "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you" essay, which defended his decision to licence his books under the GNU Free Documentation License. Here's the HN discussion on that piece:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726

Good to know, thanks!

Since he allowed the work to be cached, I'll assume this is ok not just legally but also personally:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514112625/http://diveintomar...

diveintopython has also been rehosted -- I have this saved as a bookmark:

http://www.diveintopython.net/

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