Legacy Code

Occupying my attention today in the time hoover of the interwebs, a discussion about the unreleased game based on Douglas Adams's Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

A man called Andy Baio somehow obtains a hard-drive containing the entire network server, games in development and in-house emails of a well-known game company called Infocom, dating from 1989. He compiles a fascinating document of "digital archaeology", outlining the collapse 20 years ago of The Restaurant at the End of the Unive