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Dear Zork Fan, […]
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Dear Zork Fan,

Thirty years ago the first Star Wars movie was packing throngs of curious people into crowded movie theaters across the country. Everybody was hungry to experience the promise of something fresh, something very different from the usual cop movie or off-beat comedy gracing the silver screen.

As Star Wars was very loudly and very clearly changing the landscape of science fiction movies and the genre of science fiction itself, four young men in a computer lab at MIT were very quietly playing their part in creating an industry that would ultimately dwarf the glamorous movie industry itself.

Who were those four young men?

Three of them were MIT students -- Marc Blank, Tim Anderson and Bruce Daniels.

They were joined by Dave Lebling, an MIT staff member from the Division of Sponsored Research.

What were they cooking up in that computer lab at MIT?

Zork.