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:

1. All ten Macs could be connected to one laser printer
2. 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!