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What's the first instance of joke progress messages? Is it "reticulating splines" from SimCity 2000 (1993)? Difficulty: must be presented to the user as if it w
by handrous 5y ago
What's the first instance of joke progress messages? Is it "reticulating splines" from SimCity 2000 (1993)? Difficulty: must be presented to the user as if it were an actual status message during some process that might have real status messages, not as something explicitly fictional—despite occurring in a game, that message in SC2K qualifies.
- OJFord 5y agoAh interesting, I was going to ask the same but thought it was from /earliest I knew of was The Sims (2000). (Actually I only now learn that they're related in series - always thought they were competitors.)