btw there is a followup to this article, doing investigation of who was the author
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/who-made-fy_iceworld-a-fore...
and most interestingly, there is a comment burried in the comments, admitting the he was the original author - and it checks out with the article. It was 15 year old Taiwanese guy. (Who is now a software engineer.)