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Welcome back to a miniseries within the Friday Know-It-All that we call “Return to the Computer Lab.” This is a semi-regular series in which our editorial staff explore the beloved computer games of our childhoods. (Are you surprised to learn many of us spent a lot of time on the computer?) Editor Sophie is here this week to talk about movie tie-ins and hoaxes.
The year was 2001. The sixth graders of Birch Grove Elementary in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota had recently become acquainted with collective trauma via the attack on the World Trade Center at the beginning of their school day months prior. War was starting, we’d witnessed our teachers crying, and we were doing what our generation would come to be experts in through the remaining decades: Dissociating via digital gaming.
Welcome to a new miniseries within the Friday Know-It-All that we’re calling “Return to the Computer Lab.” This will be a semi-regular series in which our editorial staff explore the beloved computer games of our childhoods. (Are you surprised to learn many of us spent a lot of time on the computer?) Editor Ruby is up first to tell you all about what it was like to play computer games in the 1990s.
