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[Ozy_y2k]

STORY: The Ghost of ARG Christmases Past

[Guest]

Great, Ozy, now I'm going to have to go and play Rogue for the next hour or so. As if I didn't have other things I need to be doing.

Speaking of Rogue, has anybody seen Scryer lately?

[fireball]

[krystyn]

Ozy, um. You're on LambdaMOO?

[Ozy_y2k]

Not me, not any more. Usta be, once upon a time, back when my method of connection to the net was a 28.8 dialup, as "badept25", for about 3 months or so, but then I drifted off to the Spot and other online amusements in the then-burgeoning brave new world of the World Wide Web.

But yah, I was once a MOOer, and before that a regular dialup BBS denizen on the 1200 and 300 baud modems, back when I thought I was all badass and hax0r on my smokin' Apple //c, and before that I used to play ADVENT on a dumb terminal with an acoustic cradle modem in the basement of my grotty little grade school when I wasn't writing six-line programs in PET BASIC to amuse my wibbly little self.

And who knows, 10 years from now I may be permanently jacked into some proto-version of the Matrix on my Pentium XXXVI, through a wetwire fused to the back of my occipital lobe, flailing around in three-dimension hyperspace and arguing with disembodied avatars about how-much-more-meta-than-thou I can be.

There is no escape. Hmm, odd, I feel like Sandra Bullock all of a sudden.

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[kenbo]

[kxmom11x]

[aliendial]

Ah, the good old days - that picnic in summer 1984 -- huddled over a terminal on the porch hacking at Zork with the two computer geeks while their respective wife/girlfriend cast aspersions about people with no lives from out on the sunny patio.... I Loved That Game!

[rexburton]

zork one two and three

[kenbo]

Re: zork one two and three

[Martavius]

Actually, the coolest Zork thingy I've seen is here:
http://thcnet.net/error/index.php
Embedded in a 404 page!

[bill]

Damn, I forgot how to unlock the grating.

[kenbo]

If I remember correctly, the key is in the maze and you unlock it from below.