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The intermingled origins of the Net and text adventures

posted by Zed on July 1 2011 12:58

J.C.R. Licklider began the work at DARPA that led to the ARPAnet. He was also one of the founders of Infocom.

Will Crowther created the first text adventure game and wrote the first routing protocol used by the ARPAnet.

"Internet" and "Interactive fiction" both begin with "inter." Coincidence?

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