Sat 29 Aug, 2009
29 August 2009
Welcome to IndieZen
In the beginning
An introspection of the computer game and its importance to the human race.
Episode 1 – Space Travel:
The year is 1969. The united States is enthralled with NASA and the Apollo Missions. The ARPANET is born. Ken Thompson has just lost his shiny new toy, a GE 645 Mainframe Computer that he and his team at Bell Labs were using, in concert with other programming teams, to develop Multics, the first multiuser operating system. The project was not meeting design goals and Bell Labs decided to pull out so the GE 645 was packed up and carted off. This left Ken with a tremendous dilemma, how to play Space Travel.
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