Tim Anderson is a computer programmer and helped create the adventure game "Zork", one of the first works of interactive fiction and an early descendant of ADVENT (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure). The first version of "Zork" was written in 1977–1979 in the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling. Wikipedia
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