Tangentially related (on the subject of awesome old computer programs):
My first exposure to the "internet" as such was at a friend's house: she had one of those ancient computers with an actual external modem that had an acoustic coupler ... I think it was 300 baud, and it was just utterly surreal. Anyway, it was running windows 3.1 and they had this great puzzle solving game set in a castle kind of myst-like? And I can't remember what it was called at all, I just played it once. (The computer, sadly, no longer exists - it was crazily held together with duct tape inside, apparently, and had been purchased from A Guy who knew A Guy who I think got it off the back of A Truck somewhere, you know.
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My first exposure to the "internet" as such was at a friend's house: she had one of those ancient computers with an actual external modem that had an acoustic coupler ... I think it was 300 baud, and it was just utterly surreal. Anyway, it was running windows 3.1 and they had this great puzzle solving game set in a castle kind of myst-like? And I can't remember what it was called at all, I just played it once. (The computer, sadly, no longer exists - it was crazily held together with duct tape inside, apparently, and had been purchased from A Guy who knew A Guy who I think got it off the back of A Truck somewhere, you know.