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The Forever Games (Ep. 4)
Gamecraft
Playing a Text-Based Game Like Island of Kesmay
In the mid 80s there was a group of people in charlotteville virginia who created this online massively multiplayer video game called island of kesmay. Despite the fact that it was clunky and slow and buggy and horrible latency because these early dial-up networks we were talking about I mean I have a one ping on my on my home network right now with fiber in those days you were talking about one second not one millisecond. It's hard for me to imagine ever playing a text-based game but you can when you experiment with it or when you observe it you can see those clear through lines of dikumud.
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