Has anyone played Nethack? 👀
Wiki: NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape.
I played a significant amount of NetHack in the 1988 - 1994 time window...
It's been around since 1987. I imagine a few people play it.
While a student in the late 90s I worked the weekend graveyard shift as a datacenter "operator". My primary duties were change the 1/2 inch backup tapes and racking them with their corresponding green bar printout logs. I also cleaned the backup drive heads with a q-tip and isopropyl alcohol and made sure all the nightly batch jobs finished.
I also read Usenet news, chatted with strangers on Bitnet Relay and played a lot of NetHack. Good times.
Amazing, it also sounds like the start of an X Files episode or something lol
Do all 3 of these things still exist btw?
I know Nethack does, never heard of bitnet and I *think* Usenet still exists(?)
The internet definitely killed BITNET relay, but the concepts it pioneered live on in IRC. AFAIK UUNET news and readers still exist but are not installed by default on any modern systems.
It's cool and interesting to see new tools like #bitchat incorporate concepts from both. BITNET relay used /
Yes, I played NetHack a lot on my iPaq (an iPaq, not an iPad 🤭).
