Bang paths have come up before, but here’s a nice real example header from the original proposal for the world-wide web:
From mcvax!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!bellcore!geppetto!duncan Thu Mar… Article 93 of alt.hypertext: Path: cernvax!mcvax!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!bellcore!geppetto!duncan >
I never knew that was a thing. I do remember going to a local JC and being surprised that they still were teaching with punch cards when at the time my job had a Burroughs with a large disk drive.
I had a friend with a TRS-80, tape cassette, and a really incredibly fucking cool (to my 7-8 year old eyes) early roguelike type game. We got to play it once or twice. Because he had twee little hippie parents, and we always had to fucking go outside and play in nature. I’m not joking, by the way. It wasn’t just ordinary parents who didn’t want us in the house. They were hippies, and named their kids hippie names like “Skyfellow.” He was a good friend.
It was torture. Knowing that thing was in there. And being stuck in their back yard, day after day, wondering what the fuck we were supposed to do with a bunch of dirt, grass, and trees.
Temple of Apshai?
Hippie parents were the goddamn bane of every budding 2nd gen computer nerd. Unless, of course, the were technohippies who like surfed the 'Well and stuff.
Source: had hippy parents who thought all that time on my 64 would warp me. WELL LOOKIT ME NOW MA
It’s really bugging me that I can’t recall. That does not seem right, but it has been to long (and it wasn’t actually me who owned the game).
Sword of Fargoal?
Temple of Apshai was my first RPG. I don’t think roguelikes were a thing back then.
The problem is, my brain is stuck on Treasure of Tarmin, but I know that’s because I owned that for my Intellivision. It has apparently crowded out all memory of early dungeon/crawl fantasy games.
I shudder to think what that might be referring to.
And a decade before that:
Now those I remember.
That first image is from Viewsonic, right?
I’m using a Viewsonic monitor right now. Love the thing.
I have a good one. Watching porn. On 8mm film. With a noisy projector.
I still remember when my friend and I found his father’s stash of 8mm porn hidden in a basement closet. Some of it went back to the 50’s, and maybe even before that.
I remember finding one of my grandfather’s old nudie mags once when I was a kid - not even porn, more like Playboy but off-brand. And the pictures were in black and white. Black and white, can you imagine??
Yes.
