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Gheorghe Dinica – Sunt vagabondul vieții mele
Cerebrals Society is a defunct high IQ society. I was not a member of the society, but I participated in the contests held by the society in 2009 and 2010.
The website of the society is also defunct, but I want to share a few archived links from the Wayback Machine. The archived links show the final rankings of the contests.
This post is more about my nostalgia and me wanting to archive the archived links on my website 🙂 . It’s easy to forget the links to many of the defunct websites that were once relevant to your life in some way. I also want to share some of my memories. After all, your memories are one of the most important treasures, and they actually can become more precious when you share them with other people.
Contests in 2009 and 2010
The archived link to the 2009 rankings and a screenshot. This was probably the first time I participated in an online contest of any kind.
The archived link to the 2010 rankings and another screenshot. This is my last contest of this nature. Around the same period I believe that I participated on a puzzle website called Worldofiq that involved many levels. I will probably do another post about worldofiq in the future.
I believe that I still have some printouts with the problems from the contests. I will not scan them since they are probably still the intellectual property of Xavier Jouve, the creator of the problems and the founder of Cerebrals Society. It seems that Xavier Jouve founded a new website/organization called Cogn-IQ. The new websites seems to have assessments related to the tests that were available at Cerebrals Society.
I think that after the 2010 Contest, I qualified to take a numerical test created by Jouve involving sequences. I think that I did well enough to qualify for the membership in the Cerebrals Society, but I did not apply. In the end, I believe that Cerebrals Society became defunct around 2012 or close to that period.
More Context
I moved to USA in December 2008, when I was a sophomore in high school. I probably started going to school in February 2009. The first semester was more weird, but I think that I became adapted to the new country pretty well. I made more friends when I was a junior and started to play soccer in the high school team.
Overall, the years 2009 and 2010 were still a period where I was trying to adapt to the new country and the new climate of Florida. I would spend a lot of my free time inside the house. These contests provided some intellectual stimulation. They are also important to me since they were my first contests over the internet. Due to the Wayback Machine they are also one of the earliest archived activities on the internet connected to me.
Even now we can say that the internet is pretty young. We are lucky to have an organization like the Internet Archive who tried through the Wayback Machine initiative to archive the internet since almost the beginning. I will try to document some of my history on the internet by writing posts like this one. Some of my interactions with the internet shall remain anonymous, since some anonymity is actually healthy for the free exchange of ideas (for the same reason we have the right to cast a secret ballot in a public election).
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