Open Sourced Zork...!
Microsoft is open-sourcing Zork,
so that the genre will be preserved
and not forgotten among all the
instant AI goo.
Learn how to program.
The writer of Adventure, Willie Crowther, was a programmer
for BBN, devising file transfer protocols
in 1976. He also explored caves.
ZORK was based on ADVENTURE.
The giant desk calculator thing in the video
is a 1975 Hewlett Packard Computer.
50 years ago. No monitor, just a tiny
Receipt type printer.
If the Grid fails, you'll have to understand
text based computing.
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