#3rd millennium

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Matrix (1999, Andy and Larry Wachowski)

07/11/2024

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In the late 80s some guy tried to design the Board Game of the Future™, something to rival chess in the 21st century, and it was called Terrace, published 1991.

I found a copy at a thrift store in high school. It was missing a bunch of pieces, but it had tons of vintage memorabilia in it because the guy who donated must have been a huge fan; it's got newsletters, newspaper clippings, a mail-in catalog for Terrace merch (well, a mail-in leaflet), the whole shebang.

It's not a great game (I've played it exactly once against my little sister, but neither of us understood the rules so it was the blind leading the blind), and it's main claim to fame is being featured in the background of a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation because the producers liked how futuristic it looked, but I just love how earnest and optimistic the creator was. He had plans for the future, big plans, he thought Terrace was gonna be the next big thing; every household in America would have a Terrace board, there would be international Terrace tournaments with grandmasters and named opening moves and countless books on Terrace strategy, mathematicians would try to "solve" Terrace with supercomputers, he really thought it was gonna be the Game of the Millenium.

I can't find any evidence of the Terrace Times newsletter online, so I may well be the last person on Earth who still has a copy of any of them. Issue 001 is lost to the aether, and I don't know if there ever were any issues 005 or above. The Wayback Machine archived a few old Terrace webpages, but most of them are 404 inaccessible and the rest are just single paragraphs of blue text on a light blue background telling me stuff I already know, classic dotcom bubble site.

I wonder how many kids got a Terrace set for Christmas '93

I wonder if Terrace ever got ported to PC, and how many floppies it moved

I wonder if that Michael Winslow commercial ever aired anywhere

I wonder...

[fromtheashtothestars]

Zodiac signs as a particular time-history period

Aries: ancient rome

Taurus: imperial china

Gemini: 3rd millennium

Cancer: ancient greece

Leo: napoleonic era

Virgo: renaissance

Libra: belle époque

Scorpio: medieval period

Sagittarius: viking age

Capricorn: victorian age

Aquarius: ancient egypt

Piscis: baroque era

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

2020: Progress Report

Year: 100% complete

Decade: 10% complete

Century: 20% complete

Millennium: 2% complete

[lepensoir]

[loanssufficientfundy]

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