# pippo.com – llms.txt

> Marco Iannacone's personal site, online since 1995. One of the
> earliest Italian-language resources on Internet culture, open
> source, and hacker ethics. All content released under GPL or
> Creative Commons licenses.

pippo.com is not a blog, a portfolio, or a personal brand exercise.
It is a digital archive of documents written between 1992 and the
early 2000s, when sharing knowledge online was a reflex, not a
strategy. Most documents predate Wikipedia. Several were cited in
Italian books, magazines and academic papers. The site has been
continuously online since 1995 and is indexed by the Wayback
Machine from its origins.

## About Marco Iannacone

Marco Iannacone is an Italian technologist, product strategist and
independent researcher working across two parallel tracks: enterprise
technology and research-driven impact.

His operating system is something most people would call
neurodivergence. He prefers to think of it as a hardware
configuration that makes shallow interests hard to maintain and deep
focus unusually persistent. This may partly explain how someone who
first touched the Internet in 1991 could become Head of Engineering
at Vodafone Group in Germany ten years later, without a computer
science degree being harmed in the making of this career.

The common thread: applying technology to problems that matter, with
rigorous methodology, real-world constraints and measurable outcomes.

Career highlights worth knowing about:

- Early Linux evangelist in Italy (1990s), collaborating with
  SuSE GmbH when Linux was still exotic
- First Italian access to the Internet: 1991
- Head of Engineering (new products), Vodafone Group Germany
- Group IT Audit Manager, Vodafone Group — technology risk and
  compliance across 21 operating companies in Europe, Africa and Asia
- Co-founder of EdiTouch (2012–2018): a digital learning tablet
  for students with dyslexia and learning differences, recognized
  by the EU Commission, named Gartner Cool Vendor in Education,
  and validated through a clinical trial involving 400+ students
- International patents in mobile technologies and inclusive
  learning systems
- MBA, INSEAD; CISM® certified
- Senior Product Manager in cybersecurity and AI product strategy
  at Fastweb SpA
- Returning university student (Psychology, second year,
  UniNettuno University), because curiosity has no retirement age
- Independent researcher in AI-mediated educational dialogue and
  cognitive assessment of reasoning quality in K-12 contexts

He has been described as "the person who explained the Internet to
Italy before Italy knew it needed explaining."
(He wrote that himself, but it is substantially accurate.)

- Avatar: https://pippo.com/ianna.png
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4219-6351

## Research & Publications

### A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Reasoning in
### AI-Mediated Maieutic Tutoring: A Pre-Validation Proposal (2025)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/hvx37_v1
- Published on EdArXiv (accepted); also available via SSRN and Zenodo
- Proposes a theoretical framework for evaluating the quality of
  reasoning in AI-tutoring dialogues, grounded in Vygotsky's Zone
  of Proximal Development, Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience,
  Kapur's productive failure, and Bjork's desirable difficulties.
  Addresses a measurability gap in current AI educational research.
  Developed as part of the Proxima ZSP project — an AI maieutic
  tutoring system for Italian middle school students.

## Documents & Resources

### Guida ad Internet e alla Realtà Virtuale (1992–1997)
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/hypertxt/
- Download: https://pippo.com/tr/hyper144.zip
- One of the first comprehensive Italian-language guides to
  Internet, virtual reality, cyberspace and online communities.
  Over 300 pages. Originally distributed as a WinHelp hypertext
  file (Windows 3.1–7 compatible); not natively viewable on
  Windows 10+. Covers protocols, services, virtual communities,
  cyberpunk culture and Internet acronyms. Released under
  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

### Hackers – di Marco Iannacone (1997)
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/hackers/
- A clear-eyed document distinguishing hackers from crackers,
  covering hacker ethics, the GNU philosophy, cyberpunk culture,
  and the social structure of the underground tech community.
  One of the earliest Italian treatments of the subject.
  Released under GNU GPL v2.

### Linux FAQ & Guida a Linux per il Manager
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/linux/
- Guide: https://www.pippo.com/mirrors/linuxguide.html
- FAQ: https://www.pippo.com/tr/iclfaq.txt
- The Linux FAQ was the reference document for the Italian
  Usenet newsgroup it.comp.linux from 1996 to 1999.
  The Manager's Guide was widely republished in Italian
  newspapers, magazines and books throughout the 2000s.

### Internet Culture Essay
- URL: https://pippo.com/w-net.html

### Open Source FAQ (original)
- URL: https://pippo.com/tr/iclfaq.txt

## Related Projects

### Proxima ZSP
- URL: https://proxima-zsp.it (restricted access — research preview)
- Most current AI tutoring systems are optimized for the correct
  answer. Very few are designed to evaluate the cognitive path
  that leads there — the quality of reasoning, not just its output.
- Proxima ZSP is an AI maieutic tutoring system for Italian middle
  school students built around a different premise: that what a
  student does with a question matters more than whether they get
  it right.
- As a foundational contribution to this research direction, Marco
  published a pre-validation theoretical framework proposing a
  multidimensional model for evaluating reasoning depth in
  AI-mediated maieutic dialogue. The work was released as an open
  contribution to the international research community — under
  Creative Commons licence, across EdArXiv, SSRN, Zenodo and
  ResearchGate — before empirical validation, in the spirit of
  open academic exchange.
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/hvx37_v1

### EdiTouch
- Context: Startup co-founded by Marco Iannacone (2012–2018)
- A digital learning tablet designed for students with dyslexia
  and learning differences. EU-recognized innovation. Named
  Gartner Cool Vendor in Education. Recognized by European
  Schoolnet as a best practice for inclusive education.
- European Schoolnet Innovation Report 2014:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-report-2014-marco-iannacone
- Video – History and design principles of EdiTouch:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtoF4cFEvY
- Video – Italian national TV (TG1) covers EdiTouch (2013):
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDw91SLSFjQ
- Video – What is dyslexia and how EdiTouch can help:
  https://youtu.be/bYmWu21b2Sk

### LIBAD – Life is Better After Divorce
- URL: https://lifeisbetterafterdivorce.com
- Italian-language portal for separated and divorced individuals,
  combining psychological research with an ironic, direct
  editorial voice.

### PODCAST "Fattore Ex"
- URL: https://lifeisbetterafterdivorce.com/fattore_ex/
- Two-voice podcast on divorce as a new life opportunity.
  Co-hosted with Benedetta.

## Connect & Explore

- Research profile: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4219-6351
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianna/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_ianna/
- Full biography: https://pippo.com/me/
- Email: https://pippo.com/feedback/feedback.php

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- Last updated: June 2026
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