I don’t think this needs any explanation. Enjoy.
fiction
The Odyssey/Cranford/Alice
These book covers are beautiful. I have copies of some of these books already but I’m going to pick up these lovely hardcover copies and donate my old ones!
I remember the first time a friend and I went to a chat room and pretended to be someone else. When only 1 in 5 friends even had the internet, and you had to choose between using the phone or hooking up to the internet. Now sometimes I look up and realize I’m coding on my laptop, streaming Netflix on the little computer hooked up to the tv, and playing Words With Friends on my iPhone all at the same time. Gluttons!
But when the internet was becoming an everyday thing in the 90′s, Hollywood had a good time with it. These movies are hilarious and awesome.
My favourite is when they are ‘surfing the internet’ in Hackers and everything is neon and circut boards.
What! I love the Dark Crystal and now they are making a sequal!? I am keeping my fingers crossed that they do everything old school with puppets and zero CG.
This is making me so excited I want to go home and have a Jim Henson-athon.
http://play.textadventures.co.uk/
I’ve been getting back into these lately. I always liked them as a kid because the graphics in my head were better than the 64bit colour ones at that time. There is still something to be said for how your imagination can paint richer pictures… no pixelation or load times to distract you.