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Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

anildash.comChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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@iantuck.bsky.social

22 Oct 2025

Man, Infocom (and by extension, nerds like me) out here catching strays. At least you called us "incredible"? Great piece, Anil.

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

Thanks! And as you can probably tell, this is a cohort of nerds that are *my people*. (Quite profoundly: As a middle-schooler, Prince was one of the kids who were the beta testers for the first, text-only, version of Oregon Trail.)

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@iantuck.bsky.social

23 Oct 2025

I think I still have the original packaging for Starcross around somewhere. Remembering HHGTTG and Planetfall's Floyd fondly. Are Meretzky and Lebling still with us, I wonder?

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@iantuck.bsky.social

23 Oct 2025

Kids today will never know how hard it was to find games compatible with a Hercules graphics card. Although I do remember Chris Crawford's Balance of Power (on Windows 1.0!) as a formative game for a 16-year-old me.