Infocom

The article describes the author's investigation into the claim that "zork" was MIT jargon for an unfinished program, a factoid long listed on Wikipedia without a clear source. After mining Wikipedia'…

The article discusses the history of text-based adventure games, particularly those by Infocom, which dominated the genre in the 1980s by focusing on narrative and text over graphics. It contrasts thi…

The article describes the author's decision to play the classic text-based adventure game *Zork* after being reminded of it by an episode of *The Big Bang Theory*. It provides instructions for obtaini…