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Retronauts Episode 468: Text Adventures

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The Early Seventies - The Teletype Machine

In the early seventies, you would have a distant main frame computer that was pretty powerful. You would connect to it over a motum with a teletype, which was basically just kind of a glorified typewriter. It could also type things back, based on signals it was receiving over the motu. When you were exploring adventure in 19 76, you had just a spool of paper that it was typing these text descriptions on. And if you wanted to go back and review something you'd already seenou just like, you know, get the literal scroll back rit.

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