Colossal Cave Adventure is a 1976 text-based adventure game by Will Crowther, based on his own spelunking experience, and expanded in 1977 by Don Woods. In it, the player explores a vast cave system rumored to be filled with treasure and gold, by typing one- or two-word commands. These are interpreted by the game's natural language input system. The program acts as a narrator, describing the player's location and the results of the player's attempted actions. It is the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake. The version by Woods expanded the game in size and increased the amount of fantasy elements present in it, such as a dragon and magic spells. Both versions were spread around the nascent ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, and were very popular in the computer community. Noted as one of the most influential video games, it was in 2019 inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
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1642:
The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal founded Fort Ville-Marie, a permanent mission that eventually grew into the Canadian city of Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal
1902:
The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
1947:
After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature perfume Chanel No. 5, Coco Chanel received a share of wartime profits from its sale, making her one of the richest women in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel
1974:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and injuring almost 300 more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings
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fjord: A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fjord
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
They who say, "There will always be war," do not know what they are saying. They are preyed upon by the common internal malady of shortsight. They think themselves full of common-sense as they think themselves full of honesty. In reality, they are revealing the clumsy and limited mentality of the assassins themselves. The shapeless struggle of the elements will begin again on the seared earth when men have slain themselves because they were slaves, because they believed the same things, because they were alike. --Henri Barbusse https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse