Ghosts of online gaming

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Visit this http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/mudtimeline.html for a strange trip in the history of online games.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, pretty boring stuff if you are under 40.

Oh well, I just wanted to point out that games went from succesfull labor of love by individuals to resounding failures by big corporations.

So when you see a game getting the labor of love treatment, buy it. :)

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, pretty boring stuff if you are under 40.
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I'm over 40 and find the history of computer gaming fascinating. Thanks for the link, it was interesting reading.

When I was in high school (late 70s) I took some computer programming and wrote a few games, including a football game that worked pretty well. We stored our programs on spools of paper with holes punched in them, which we kept rolled up with a paper clip. We then fed the paper through a reader for a teletype terminal hooked to an off-site mainframe.

And my high school was ahead of the curve!
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
In the '80s I learned to program BASIC on a Commodore PET computer. Ahhh...those were the days!

When a text-based adventure game was the greatest thing in the world! :D
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, somewhere long about 1979 or so I was learning BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 1, and playing the awesome strategy games Hammurabi and Space War. And not long after, I was eaten by a grue.


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