• noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There’s a lot of humour in there, but this:

    CSCI 3300: Classical Software Studies
    Discuss and dissect historically significant products, including VisiCalc, AppleWorks, Robot Odyssey, Zork, and MacPaint. Emphases are on user interface and creativity fostered by hardware limitations.

    I’d take that course in a heart beat. I’ve read some of Atkinson’s ideas and thoughts, and the man was deeply sane.

    It must be decades now that my LinkedIn background banner is a screen shot of Zork source code.

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      3 days ago

      deeply sane

      I hope somebody describes me like this one day.