Can you still read the files you made thirty years ago?
What it took to recover my own conference papers from Word 2.0 and PowerPoint 4.0, and what it taught me about who is actually keeping my archive readable.
Curiosities
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Writing
Colossal Cave Adventure, rebuilt over breakfast
Colossal Cave Adventure ported to strictly typed TypeScript over a few breakfasts, and checked against the original's own ninety-five test transcripts. Then a second model laid out the cave map the first one could not.
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hello polyglots: one program, eight languages
A program three of us wrote in 1991 that compiles and runs in eight languages, and what became of it.
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