I’ve been enjoying playing with the new BBC home page which is in beta just now.
(As spotted on the Information Architecture Institute mailing list.)
Day: 22 December 2007
Netrek
In my second year at St Andrews (1990-1991) our college got its first PC classroom; actually it was a Mac classroom.
This was in the days before the World Wide Web, and none of us had email addresses, but the computers were networked, which for us meant two things:
- All ten Macs could be connected to one laser printer
- We could play a networked Star Trek-inspired computer game against one another
For years I couldn’t remember the name of the game. Until I chanced upon an article in a PC magazine just now.
The game was Netrek, and it’s still available. Fantastic!
Conversation with a doctor
Last night Jane and I were at her parents’ wedding anniversary party. I was chatting with Jane’s cousin Andrew.
Gareth: You’re a doctor, aren’t you.
Andrew: Yeah.
Gareth: If you were to eat an apple a day, would you have some kind of existential crisis?