One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable ...

I learned to read by playing Rogue. Some of my first reading words were things like quaff, emu, and mace. A capital letter T was the scariest letter. I skipped to Zangband 2.4 and played it a tonne in ...

I still routinely play Angband. Although now days I'll willingly use tiles instead of ASCII. That game taught me how to use 10-key.