Cassette-recorder tape drives. Web anthropologists are wont to observe that in these hyperlinked times, it is no longer necessary for people to learn or to study . They merely need to find . But that's just a taste. Wumpus, Adventure, and other exhumed games are signals that shouldn't be ignored.
Computer history is a powerful metaphor.
Forget about links. Let's talk simulation, emulation, revivification. Old computers don't die, they live on, repurposed, ported to new environments by geeks who just can't let go. In their new reality, they smudge the distinctions between decades. They blur the barriers of time.