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> I too cant help myself from occasionally dreaming of some alternate reality where GUIs were never invented and all the problems of addictive online media were
by tyrust 5y ago
> I too cant help myself from occasionally dreaming of some alternate reality where GUIs were never invented and all the problems of addictive online media were somehow magically sidestepped.
MUDs were before my time, but I have a friend that claims to have spent hundreds of hours playing these text-based games.
Addiction is a human issue and isn't limited to one form or another.
- CRConrad 5y ago> MUDs were before my time, but I have a friend that claims to have spent hundreds of hours playing these text-based games. > Addiction is a human issue and isn't limited to one form or another. For me it was newsgroups. (Sure, I read them in a Windows-based Usenet reader, but it was the contents that were addictive, and that was all text.)