Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:1019 alt.folklore.computers:7155 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!sharkey!msuinfo!midway!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!whos From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Re: GENERAL WARNING Message-ID: <1990Nov16.000014.9254@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 16 Nov 90 00:00:14 GMT References: <1990Nov12.210455.874@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1990Nov13.235831.1451@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 14 In article <1990Nov13.235831.1451@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes: > >What IS xyzzy? > Does it have some acronymical significance? >What is Adventure? (I am young, bear with me) Adventure is the ancestor of all modern Infocom-type text adventures. XYZZY was a magic word from the game. -- whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM | I don't know, who's at DDSW1? | whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM! I asked YOU who's at DDSW1! Ok, there's a guy at DDSW1, right? | Right! Who? | Exactly! | What? | No, he's at lll-winken. | Where? | No, What! | I don't know! | He's at gargoyle. | Who? | No, he's at DDSW1.MCS.COM!