A forgotten all-time bestselling 1980s desktop computer and the first virtual world it spawned
sebkrier · x · 2026-09-09
In her latest history column for Works in Progress, Violet Postrel revisits the 1980s to explore a largely forgotten—yet all-time bestselling—desktop computer system, and the original virtual world it gave birth to. A tech-history look at the roots of personal computing and virtual communities.
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