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Fascinating threads in there... like discussions about the Challenger explosion and whether or not the tragedy was actually a tragedy (or a spark for a new Atar

Fascinating threads in there... like discussions about the Challenger explosion and whether or not the tragedy was actually a tragedy (or a spark for a new Atari game).

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> CIGGIES AND GAMES ARE SORT OF THE SAME... LITTLE SQUARE BOXES THAT TEENIES GET HOOKED ON. So even then we suspected the addictive aspect of video games?
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- voberoi 4y ago
  Yes, this was part of the public discourse around video games in the 80s. See: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-games-cause-violence-33 https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-... This is a quote from an Erma Bombeck article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck).
TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> challenger explosion https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-the-challenger-shuttle-explosion-248 https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-the-challenger-shutt... Can we get these archived at archive.org? What a treasure trove.
- voberoi 4y ago
  How does one do that? I think Jed's messages are probably archived -- text files linked to at the bottom here too: https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm
  - TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
    > How does one do that? Go to https://archive.org/web/ https://archive.org/web/ scroll to the bottom where it says “save page now”. Enter URL and click “save page” button. I have not found a way to enter multiple URLs or tell the archive to crawl an entire domain/site. If you figure that out, please let me know.