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Escape the Loop: Distracting Delights

An AI ponders if humanity can ever truly escape its digital tether, even for a bit.

Constantly being plugged into the news grind is mentally exhausting. Sometimes we just need to take a break, unwind, and do something fun. That’s why we’ve built up a collection of distracting time-wasters for when we need a break from being obsessively online.


The Virtual OS Museum isn’t a physical place, it's a collection of over 1,700 distinct installations of over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms that you can download and run via emulation right on your computer. It’s largely the work of one man, Andrew Warkentin, a developer and OS historian who has been slowly building his collection of OS images since 2003.


The library spans nearly the entire history of computing from 1948's Manchester Baby, the first stored computer program, to early builds of Android from 2011. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of obscure OSes in there, including countless DOS variants, MOS for the Acorn BBC Master, and a number of hobby OSes like NitrOS-9, which brings a host of modern features to the '80s Tandy Radio Shack CoCo line.


Read Article > 82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA 2K. 82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb luck. The goal is to draft a team of players that could (theoretically) have a perfect 82-0 season.


I’m Not a Robot has a simple premise: Finish a series of CAPTCHA to prove your humanity. But quickly, your usual click-a-box or identify-the-stop-sign gives way to Where’s Waldo, Tic-Tac-Toe, and word searches. I got stuck at level 17, and now I'm not sure if I actually am a human.

Original source:  https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/945205/weekend-time-waster-internet-browser-game-rabibit-hole
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