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I'm having mixed feelings about the internet these days.
Metope:
Wow, I am glad I turned 20 already because I would hate to be younger than the internet. Don't ask why, I have no idea.
pwhodges:
The Internet is not just the web, and has been around in some form since about 1969 (start of ARPAnet) or 1983 (conversion to the present TCPIP protocols). So you're way younger than the Internet - sorry. I, on the other hand, am considerably older than the Internet - a fact of no importance whatsoever.
snalin:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Mar 2009, 17:12 ---games, for instance - yes even the earliest text-only ones (I even wrote one of them back in the late '70s)
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1: Was it good?
2: Do you still have it laying around somewhere?
Metope:
Wow, the internet is that old? I am a bit sad that I wont be able to yell "When I was your age, the internet didn't exist!" to my potential grandchildren.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: snalin on 01 Apr 2009, 00:57 ---Was it good?
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Some people got quite keen on it for a while in the late 1970s. But it exists now only in memory; it was specific to a range of machines that no longer exists even in emulation. I suppose I might have the BCPL source for it somewhere, but it'll be buried too deep to go looking for. It was a classic dungeons and dragons type, with a convoluted map incuding a labyrinth you had to work out, treasures, weapons, health, and a "magic move" for getting out of tight spots at a cost. You could choose to be Charlotte Rampling if you wanted.
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