a16z's Casado hypes all-ASCII AI-built MMORPG: 'early Internet again, juiced 10000x'
QuixiAI · x · 2026-10-18
A developer built an ASCII MMORPG where the entire world, characters, environments and effects are drawn with colored text characters, now experimenting with magic, visuals and bosses. a16z partner Martin Casado amplified it: "we're reliving the early Internet all over again. But juiced 10000x."
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