Clive Thompson on Nostr: In 1969, a teenager created the first “lunar lander” game entirely text-based ...

In 1969, a teenager created the first “lunar lander” game

entirely text-based gameplay!

Decades later, after an interview with ace games journalist Benj Edwards (npub1f3d…yk3x), the now-adult game developer puts that old code online

People start playing it

… and one engineer finds a bug — previously un-noticed in 55 year old code

I love stories like this

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