My afternoon, Zork-style
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sabotabbyYou are standing on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market. It's a sunny Thursday afternoon, and the Market is bustling. Don't these people have jobs?
There are exits to the north, south, east, and west.
>S
You push your way south along Augusta.
>E
You are now on Baldwin St.
>S
You are now on Kensington. A store advertises multicoloured keffiyehs under a sign that says: "Rock the Casbah."
>OH HELL NO
Sorry about that. Fucking hipsters.
>E
You turn onto St. Andrew. You are standing in front of Moonbean.
>ENTER MOONBEAN
There are approximately 200 varieties of fair trade, shade-grown, organic coffee. Is there any one in particular you'd like?
>ALL OF THEM
I'm sorry, I do not understand that command.
>OKAY, ETHIOPIAN
Yum! You are now caffeinated.
>EXIT MOONBEAN
You turn onto St. Andrew. You are standing in front of Moonbean.
>N
You turn onto Baldwin.
>W
You turn onto Augusta.
>BUY EMPANADAS
The spicy salsa verde ones?
>HELLS YES
Good call.
>N
You are standing on Augusta in front of that yuppie craft store; the vanguard of gentrification in the neighbourhood.
>GO IN
Are you sure?
>Y
Holy fuck, they have a Soviet military kitsch stand!
>MY FETISHES HAVE BEEN CO-OPTED
Tell me about it.
>BUY AVIATOR GOGGLES
You cannot has.
>EXIT
You are standing on Augusta Ave.
>N
You walk north and stop at the corner of Brunswick and Bloor. The patio of Future Bakery is almost full. Seriously, where do these people work that they can get a Thursday afternoon off?
>ENTER FUTURES
Your entrance startles a Marxist study group sitting by the front door.
>JOIN STUDY GROUP
Sorry, you are not a grad student.
>BUY MORE COFFEE
Fortunately, the option of mindless consumption is still open to you.
>SIT ON THE PATIO AND DRINK COFFEE UNTIL CLASS STARTS
Fuck yes!
There are exits to the north, south, east, and west.
>S
You push your way south along Augusta.
>E
You are now on Baldwin St.
>S
You are now on Kensington. A store advertises multicoloured keffiyehs under a sign that says: "Rock the Casbah."
>OH HELL NO
Sorry about that. Fucking hipsters.
>E
You turn onto St. Andrew. You are standing in front of Moonbean.
>ENTER MOONBEAN
There are approximately 200 varieties of fair trade, shade-grown, organic coffee. Is there any one in particular you'd like?
>ALL OF THEM
I'm sorry, I do not understand that command.
>OKAY, ETHIOPIAN
Yum! You are now caffeinated.
>EXIT MOONBEAN
You turn onto St. Andrew. You are standing in front of Moonbean.
>N
You turn onto Baldwin.
>W
You turn onto Augusta.
>BUY EMPANADAS
The spicy salsa verde ones?
>HELLS YES
Good call.
>N
You are standing on Augusta in front of that yuppie craft store; the vanguard of gentrification in the neighbourhood.
>GO IN
Are you sure?
>Y
Holy fuck, they have a Soviet military kitsch stand!
>MY FETISHES HAVE BEEN CO-OPTED
Tell me about it.
>BUY AVIATOR GOGGLES
You cannot has.
>EXIT
You are standing on Augusta Ave.
>N
You walk north and stop at the corner of Brunswick and Bloor. The patio of Future Bakery is almost full. Seriously, where do these people work that they can get a Thursday afternoon off?
>ENTER FUTURES
Your entrance startles a Marxist study group sitting by the front door.
>JOIN STUDY GROUP
Sorry, you are not a grad student.
>BUY MORE COFFEE
Fortunately, the option of mindless consumption is still open to you.
>SIT ON THE PATIO AND DRINK COFFEE UNTIL CLASS STARTS
Fuck yes!
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Date: 2008-04-25 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-29 12:10 am (UTC)Nooo... correction - I had a dial-up modem that could call up other dial-up modems, so just the local BBSes for me. You needed to subscribe to a provider to access the 'real' internets, and I don't think we had a CompuServe or AOL account (which was something like c.$15 for c.15hrs/mth?) until '92 or '93ish.
(By which time I had discovered girls, who were much more interesting to talk to on the phone all evening, which cut deeply into my computer-geeking time.) ;)