My peeps!

*weeps*

*vanishes in a cloud of greasy black smoke*

Hmm. Priorities.

One guy always named his dog Dipshit. He left a ghost level with that dog, who then killed another player at a high score. So the other guy was listed on the all-time scores as “being killed by a little dog named Dipshit.”

Anyway, our version would segfault unpredictably, so we had all these “the fish that got away” stories. There is still some pain, I am afraid.

I remember thinking life was super when I paid several months allowance purchasing a modem for the thing and starting to dial local bulletin board systems. Some still exist. Learned to program in basic on that thing, made some of my own dorky little games and programs including a word processor, and downloaded my first porn off a bulletin board called A-2-Z Entrprises. It was a low resolution picture of Rachel Hunter in a swimsuit.

Later started pissing off the folks though clogging up their lines connecting to BBS’s and (gasp) Prodigy when it first came out and they banned me from using it, hiding it in the closet. I proceeded to take plywood, caulking and bricks and made a replica of it, stole it from the closet, zipped up the replica frame in the canvas bag it was kept in and proceeded to use aligator clips to attach the thing to the phone lines from outside in the middle of the night.

Some of the games I used to play: Tradewars 2002, The Pit (text based door game for Spitfire), made my own BBS that would only run at night (until I had it running illegally on a spare line in my high school computer lab, which I later was suspended for and banned forevermore from the computer lab). For non-online games there was Sun Tzu’s Ancient Art of War, Exodus Ultima III (something like a D&D remake) and EMPIRE… I loved those things! Rambled a bit, but I still have that old thing. Later on I even spent $80 upgrading the memory from 256K to 640K heheh. Wierd when you realize that wasn’t but 20ish years ago.

… fond memories (sorry for long comment)

Hang robe on hook.

HGTTG had a glitch anyway, you’d get halfway through and it would crash.

update: You can actually play all the Infocom games here!

Your inventory included No Tea.

And yes, I too am a member of the Babelfish At Last Weeping Society.

Jesus – we’ll be on to Prestel, next, we Brits!

The Internet? What new-fangled American nonsense is this?!