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This article set me up to tell me how the Oregon Trail went from being the brainchild of three educators not interested in money to the hugely explosive softwar
by beowulfey 5y ago
This article set me up to tell me how the Oregon Trail went from being the brainchild of three educators not interested in money to the hugely explosive software it became… but left me unfulfilled. What happened after he published the source code? Who decided to sell it for money??
- simonh 5y agoDon Rawitsch was hired by a state funded educational software group to develop a version of it for them. That, and it’s descendants, are the ones that became commercial.
- whoopdedo 5y agoThe answer to that is in this article[1]. I remember it from a HN thread[2] earlier this year. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-you-wound-playing-em-oregon-trailem-computer-class-180959851/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-you-wound-play... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871196