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  "textContent": "Type \"open mailbox\" in The Visible Zorker, and the game does what it always did: tells you the mailbox is open, with a leaflet inside. But on the same page, you also see the function that just ran, what variables it touched, and where every object in the room currently sits. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Play Zork while reading the 1980 code that makes it work appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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