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Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack’s Anonymous Creator
I’ve been playing this game since the weekend and am completely addicted. I’m not sure if it’s the open endedness or the nostalgia I get from seeing the green on black screen but it’s definitely worth checking out.
Telehack is the most interesting game I’ve played in the last year… a game that most users won’t realise is a game at all.
It’s a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet newsgroups, BBS textfiles, software archives, and historical computer networks into a multiplayer adventure game.

via waxy.org