> There is no equivalent of this today. And even if there were, the alternatives are numerous. It's not a choice between playing the same old game for the 100t

> There is no equivalent of this today. And even if there were, the alternatives are numerous. It's not a choice between playing the same old game for the 100th time and writing your own (from a magazine), it's a choice between a world of information carefully crafted by millions of experts to take your attention and provide you with those quick-win endorphinns in exchange for showing you adverts for things you don't want. Computing in the 80s and 90s was a much more personal thing, today it's a war.