On: What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to com...

[xtiansimon]

“Do you want to play a game?”

Text based games on main frames.

The influence could be the parallel time lines of the rise of swords and sorcery and computing in the 1970s and 80s.

And what makes a good hostname anyway? Obscure (not to be confused) unique, memorable?

[anthk → xtiansimon]

- Adventure

- Dungeon/Zork

- Rogue/Hack/Nethack

[markus_zhang → xtiansimon]

I wonder why no one develops a graphics library for mainframe and makes hobby games out of it.