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Read a few articles and even novels from the 80s and poeple constantly refer very good programmers as "wizards". Also the sub culture of DND sticks hard. I guess most likely the reason was computer programming back in 80s was mostly low level considering one had to use assembly/C/Pascal for serious PC programming.


“Do you want to play a game?”

Text based games on main frames.

The influence could be the parallel time lines of the rise of swords and sorcery and computing in the 1970s and 80s.

And what makes a good hostname anyway? Obscure (not to be confused) unique, memorable?


- Adventure

- Dungeon/Zork

- Rogue/Hack/Nethack


I wonder why no one develops a graphics library for mainframe and makes hobby games out of it.


And of course: the Scary Devil Monastery.




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