Hey, I got an idea! 
Why don’t you look it up? 
If you’re going to insist on making up a pack of nonsense, you might at least consider trying to add some humor or otherwise to add a touch of style. For example, you might have tried something like the following:
If you were to do something like that, at least your nonsense would have some entertainment value.
Robert Rothman
secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … _computers
You’re right about the spike though, I’ll give you that.
I had to smile. People on forums of, say, news sites tend to mistake politics for football and curse’n’insult everyone with the “wrong” political attitude, regardless of what they actually said. Got used to that, seems like the anonymity of the internet turns people into troglodytes on crack. But bitching about a data carrier of the 70es and 80es really takes this to a new level. 
The biggest problem with the ignore filter (or whatever it is called in phpBB) is that curiosity compels me to see what people are responding to, and I end up loading each post one by one.
Back on topic, just for the novelty value: I grew up with Pirates! and M.U.L.E. and Pool of Radiance on the Commodore 64, completely missing the commercial era of interactive fiction. I came across Jimmy Maher’s Let’s Tell a Story Together in October 2010 while rocking my newborn to sleep in an easy chair. I was utterly fascinated by the story, and that led me to some of the more abstract articles and essays about theory and design and then to Inform 7, and eventually here. At some point several days later, it occurred to me to actually download and try one (The Elysium Enigma, I think).
I bought Aaron Reed’s book on the theory that an investment of my funding would compel me to invest more of my time and actually produce something. Theories are fun.
I’m 33. I’m married (11 yrs) with two children (3 1/2 and 10 months). I’m on active duty with the Army National Guard. I like to tie decorative knots. I speak Russian like a drunk 6-year-old, but I read and listen to it pretty well. I used to fix computers and networks for a living. I like Toyotas from the late 80s. I like Star Wars from the early 80s. I still own a 28.8 kbps modem (just in case).
Oops…I didn’t see this intro sticky and I egotistically made my own thread. I’ve deleted that and copied the text here…
Hi everyone. I figured I should introduce myself. I’ve been a periodic fan of interactive fiction. When I was a kid, I wasted countless hours on Zork I-III on my family’s IBM PC Jr. before eventually getting seduced by the graphics of games we could run on our lightning fast 75Mhz Pentium computer.
In high school, I rediscovered IF and the burgeoning indie scene, with the IFComp etc., and all those incredible games around the turn of the century (Photopia, Aisle, Galatea, and so on). 4 years in a computer science program made me slowly loathe sitting in front of computers, and I more or less stopped playing computer games or video games. A few years later now, I’ve picked up programming as a hobby again and, after seeing Get Lamp, realized that I need to get back into IF.
It’s great to see that the community remains thriving and that the medium is continually evolving. While I, of course, have grand intentions of writing my own story some day, I have not yet tried. However, in the meantime, as my IF collection quickly burgeoned thanks to the IFDB and such resources, I decided I needed a good program to organize them. I found one and eventually started hacking on it, so I have given my first contribution of hopefully many to the community (which has its own thread, so I won’t go into it here).
So, glad to be here, looking forward to the discussions, and so on. Cheers 
Hello all,
My friends (including my wonderful girl) call me the Doctor. I’ve been playing IF for 10 years and recently I decided to write my own.
It’s gonna be awhile before its polished and finished but thats where I am on it 
Thanks for you time.
The Doctor
and I’m back there ! because of the previous post, I specify that I’m the Dottore (doctor) from Italy, whose in the end, I resigned to accept the shifting to this forum
to introduce myself or not to introduce, because I’m known by the former denizens or r*if ?
Anyway, I’m 41, from Italy (of course) and more oriented to old school in development (preferring mature dev systems) albeit I appreciate the unique advantages of I7 IDE 
but suffering of “WIPite” and never finding my WIP worth of release (what WIP ? well, because of this, I never talk about my WIPs)
Hope is enough, and
Vest regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
Hello everyone,
I’m relatively young, and have been writing simple parsers and adventure games since I started out with an Adventure Games in BASIC book in my early teens. This year I’ve decided to move out of silently lurking in the darkness and enter IFComp 2011.
Though I haven’t finished many games, I enjoyed Zork and ADVENT quite a lot during my youth, and went on to have a lot of fun playing more recent games which have been released in the last thirty years.
It’s very nice to meet everyone here, and I am glad to finally be brave enough (and be wearing enough light-absorbing objects) to join such a creative community.
My name is David Good. I am 44 years old and I live in California with my wife and dog.
Growing up I fancied myself becoming a famous writer, as I liked to write short stories. But it never happened. I became a web developer and computer support specialist instead.
Stephen King wrote in his “On Writing” memoir that once on a long drive, his wife Tabitha was reading one of his manuscripts. He kept glancing over at her to see her reaction to certain things, and she finally, annoyed, said “Stop being so goddamn needy!”
I write interactive fiction because I am goddamn needy.
My first released games were written in ADRIFT, but I am currently working in Inform 7. It may be more complex but I like that it’s more flexible than form-based systems.
God, I should start a band with that name.
My username is ultimate (no pun intended!) and I’m new to this forum. Some of you may already have me on their radar.
I like to prank people, like the guys from FridayNightCranks do, but I don’t do pranks on the phone but on internet forums and communities. Check’em out. They are really funny! 
A friend of mine, who is a fan of interactive fiction, told me I should use my pranking skills to try to prank intfiction.org with some unusual posts without being called a “troll”. It turns out I failed. This community is really hard to prank with.
Just wanted to inform (no pun intended!) you, so you don’t wonder what my past posts were all about.
We’ve had a lot of experience, unfortunately.
Hey y’all, I’m Sean.
I’ve been loosely following IF on-an-off since some time in the late '90s, if you don’t count playing a few of the old Infocom games when I was an infant (or thereabouts).
By day I write software for a living. Late afternoon/early evening, I fly kites. At night, I generally write more software. I’ve been between serious hobby projects lately, so I’d be curious to hear if there are any projects in the IF-o-sphere-o-verse that could use another contributor.
Ooh, I didn’t know there was anything going on in my native platform. Must investigate!
Greetings! I am new to this forum and writing IF. Let’s see…I’m 34, a grad student, and all-around bum. I recall playing text adventures as a child, and I played MUDs in my twenties, and now again I’ve been bitten by the IF bug. I’ve always wanted to write a text adventure game, but I don’t have strong programming skills. However, I recently discovered Inform 7 and was blown away. This is something I’ve wanted for a long time. I remember dabbling around with BASIC back in the day, but never could figure out the more complex aspects of programming (in particular, I’m not good at quantitative thinking. Once numbers are involved my brain vanishes!). Anyway, I’m glad I found this forum, because I will probably have some questions about how to do things. Hopefully I’m not too annoying.
Welcome Rymbeld. Glad discovering Inform 7 has been so exciting for you. I must say I’m really inspired by it too. I have coded in MUDs before (LPC, an object oriented language), and a bit of Inform 6. But Inform 7 is the first time that writing text adventures has seemed quite so much fun, and interactive. Though MUDs came pretty close. I loved the way I could summon up objects and rooms in the game, while playing. It had that similar mix of playing and coding that Inform 7 seems to manage.
My problem isn’t the programming one (my first degree was computer science), but more the creative / writing one. That’s hampered me writing more text adventures. But I’m determined to overcome it and become more creative 
Hello, I’m guessing I’m a bit late joining the game heheh. Where to start? Okay well I’m 17, I know a bit young to be into text games, I might not have grown up with them but I find it interesting how compelled you can become to a game with just the story. Anyway I’m here to discuss games among others that play, and cure my ignorance on some stuff that I honestly have no idea how to figure out.
Welcome! How did you get introduced to IF? What was your first game?