[ih] network games, was Re: Fwd: How Plato Influenced the Internet

[Tony Finch]

Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hah & thanks. History of the network wrt. latency and gaming. Fun topic.
>
> Games without a competitive real-time element worked best
> over early WANs. Such as round based strategy games.

Going off on a tangent, one of the highlights of 2021 for me has been the
"50 years of text games" blog / newsletter by Aaron A. Reed. So many great
stories about a wonderfully broad variety of people and the games they
made! There have been a couple of articles that are particularly relevant
to Internet history:

https://if50.substack.com/p/1980-mud

https://if50.substack.com/p/1990-lambdamoo

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  https://dotat.at/
Northwest Fitzroy, Sole: Variable, 2 to 4. Moderate. Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.