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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon." - @technologyreview.com
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Margaret Hamilton
By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, 1936-2026. Seen here standing next to printouts of the code that took humanity to the Moon. A computer science legend. Rest in peace. 🚀 🌙
Black and white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to printouts of her Apollo mission code, like a BOSS.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dead internet theory iMac LAN party! ​join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers, weird games, experimental art, and the joy of being online together, in person. october 17th!
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dead internet theory iMac LAN party · Luma
💾 dead internet theory: oakland edition come play on imacs with us~~ ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers,…
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I Hope It Never Has to Run" - The new ‘Pokémon’ game thinks through the possibility of ‘dying well’ in an age of looming disaster and environmental collapse. - @dracopoullos.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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I Hope It Never Has to Run | Los Angeles Review of Books
The new ‘Pokémon’ game thinks through the possibility of ‘dying well’ in an age of looming disaster and environmental collapse.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
West of House You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door There is a small mailbox here > From the vaults of the Zork Users Group in '82: a gorgeously illustrated map of the adventure that'll take you into the depths of what was once the Great Underground Empire.
A scan of a paper map from 1982 of one part of the overall Zork map with lots of pencil or ink drawings of box-and-line room maps and illustrated dead leave forests, mountains, and the White House (not that one)Part two of the four-page map with more illustrations to evoke your imagination of mineshafts, and batlike creatures, and caverns far below.
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Hit Save! @hitsave.org · 05/10/2026
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!
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preserve.games - Video Game Preservation Portal
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Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For October we're gonna dive into the E-Cheese Zone, a self-described "punishment game" digital escape room. Come play (and probably eat too many Cheetos) October 23rd at 5pm at @mademuseum.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/experiment...
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop by Swan's Market Courtyard on October 3rd and play some alt. ctrl. games! Outside! In the real world!
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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 24/09/2026
Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop by Swan's Market Courtyard on October 3rd and play some alt. ctrl. games! Outside! In the real world!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a #Multibowl sneak peak! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_w...
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Multibowl sneek peek
YouTube video by Bennett Foddy
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us at this Month's Experimental Play Night tonight @ any time 5-9 for Bennet Foddy and AP Thompson's illegal competitive party game Multibowl. Be the last one standing!
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Experimental Play Nights
A game night of the elaborate and strange.
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Mike Merrill @kmikeym.com · 24/09/2026
The problem with volunteering at @mademuseum.bsky.social in the archives is finding so many games I want to play. anyone played Wishbringer, The Madness of Roland, The Colony, or Starflight?
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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sharing an after-action report on the latest Multiplayer Bitsy workshop at @mademuseum.bsky.social. Read the latest updates and get set for #bitsyjam 100, starting Oct 15th! jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...
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MP Bitsy workshop at the MADE
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland hosted us on September 13th for the first public Multiplayer Bitsy workshop. After discovering the `avatar morph` rule, we quickly made some tea....
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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 19/09/2026
What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
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wowmd.bsky.social @wowmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's the first footage of the cancelled SNES/SFC port of Railroad Tycoon to ever be posted online, captured from my promotional tape made by the would-be Japanese publisher. For a long time, the only evidence of the game's existence was two blurry Nintendo Power screenshots!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feel like throwing down? Get out that primal aggression in a fun, social environment where nobody gets hurt. IRL, anyway. Super Smash Bros Ultimate Every Thursday 7pm The first rule of Fight Nights @ The MADE? Absolutely please do talk about Fight Nights @ The MADE. Tell everyone.
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Fight Nights @ The MADE
Join us at our weekly Smash tournaments!
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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Happy anniversary to one of Chuck Jones’ best shorts. The 2nd in the Hunting Trilogy, ranked number 30 in the The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time, and also the first to have layout artist Maurice Noble credited. Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck in “Rabbit Seasoning” (1952). #LooneyTunes
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
​Weird controllers. Unusual games. Let’s play. Join the MADE at Swan’s Market for the first O.A.K. Games, a free outdoor showcase of alternative-controller games, experimental play, and interactive art. These games ask you to move, swing, balance, and play with strange physical interfaces!
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O.A.K. Games by the MADE: Open-Air Alt-Control Games · Luma
Weird controllers. Unusual games. Let’s play. Join the MADE at Swan’s Market for the first O.A.K. Games, a free outdoor showcase of alternative-controller…
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Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This workshop has been fantastic and you can hop in anywhere!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join us tomorrow at 1pm for @smshieldsy.bsky.social's intensive trading card game workshop where participants will go hands on with Worldbuilding and Scarcity in card games www.eventbrite.com/e/tcg-tradin...
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TCG (Trading Card Game) Intensive Workshop
What makes trading card games stick with people? Join us in this intensive 4-day workshop to find out!
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Mike Merrill @kmikeym.com · 12/09/2026
been volunteering at @mademuseum.bsky.social
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We helped revive Habitat... as Neohabitat! Login and party like it's 1989! neohabitat.org
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NeoHabitat — Play the World's First MMO
NeoHabitat is the open-source revival of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1986), the world's first graphical MMO. Play it right now in your browser, in an emulator, or on real Commodore 64 hardware.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Habitat, the MMO for the C64! "‘It’s the first virtual world’, says Alex Handy, founder of the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) [...] ‘It was the source of almost all of the original terms that have to do with online worlds."
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Virtual worlds - Works in Progress Magazine
The massively multiplayer online game was created in the 1980s.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That "five year mission" sure did stretch out. STAR TREK premiered on NBC on this date in 1966! Six decades of awesome aliens, optimism, and social commentary. And, yes, the appropriate amount of Tribbles and PEW PEW PEW KABOOM! Happy birthday, TREK!
Screenshot from Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for the NES. Pixelated art of Kirk and Spock. Spock is saying, "CAPTAIN, OUR MOST RECENT SENSOR REPORT REVEALED A"Screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown. Space battle! Pew pew!Promo art for STAR TREK: PHASER STRIKE for Microvision! 1979!
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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Asteroid Mission xkcd.com/3294 Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny. Explain xkcd: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/…
Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer... Arguably it was the ZX81 I had for three months, but realistically the first one I really *used* was the Amstrad PCW8256.
A Sinclair ZX81. Black, roughly square, physically small home computer from 1981. The front 40% is covered by a completely flat touch-sensitive four row keyboard (with no space bar). Absolutely ghastly!An Amstrad PCW8256 home/office computer, pale beige with screen/floppy disk/CPU unit, keyboard, and dot matrix printer (it came as a complete kit).
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The website is up: save-the-academy.org Important info, contact points, and news articles within
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. Rally Tue Sept 8, 10 a.m., 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. Nine things you can do today.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Do you like what the MADE is doing? Want to help out in some way? Join us Mondays 6–8 PM at MADE @ 921 Washington St for our volunteer meeting! We welcome new volunteers and anyone curious!
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Weekly Volunteer Meetings
Join us Mondays 6–8 PM at MADE @ 921 Washington St for our volunteer meeting and tasks! We welcome new volunteers and anyone curious!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That’s part of the class!
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ICARUS @mistericarus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wanna go build a collaborative Doom map at a museum? (If you live in Oakland, CA, USA)
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Exquisite Corpse: Doom World - A Collaborative Level Design Workshop. Everyone creates a section of a Doom map before passing it along to someone else. Rooms mutate. Monsters migrate. Themes collapse. Come help build this grotesque megaWAD. Here at the MADE. #GameDev
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Exquisite Corpse: Doom World [Collaborative Level Design Workshop]
Build one monster. Together.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mary Menzel, one of the first programmers for the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has passed away at the age of 97. RIP. www.riverafamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/m...
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Mary Menzel Obituary Aug 27, 2026 - Rivera Family Funerals & Cremations
View Mary Menzel's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You are playing an unusual form of interactive entertainment. A COMPUTER is here, displaying mostly text. In accordance with tradition, the text is written in the SECOND PERSON. There is a group of PEOPLE here. It's an INTERACTIVE FICTION MEETUP! Every first Saturday, at the MADE.
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Interactive Fiction Meetup
Every first Saturday.
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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How would you (yes, you) explain the concept of “clipping” (video game-style) to an older relative (you have to love them enough to try)? 🚧 Replies are open; thread is muted. 🚧
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Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An absolutely incredible game, thanks to everyone who came by the MADE and played!
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🫡 Donors make the MADE! As we continue to inspire the next generation of digital creators and dive even deeper into the community impact we can make, we want to make sure we recognize the support of those who have supported us in the pursuit of our mission. We invite you to give as well!
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Donor Wall
DONORS MAKE THE MADE — From Kickstarters to individual and corporate donations, we've been privileged to walk side-by-side with people who believe in the…
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nintendo’s Sci-Fi Haunted House: Celebrating Metroid’s 40th Anniversary
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Nintendo’s Sci-Fi Haunted House: Celebrating Metroid’s 40th Anniversary - The Punished Backlog
The Metroid games deserve more attention as Nintendo's best attempt at a haunted house.
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Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tonight!
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIV Dolly You are one of the few people cool enough to get your likeness on a pinball machine and actually deserve it ❤️
The Dolly Parton pinball machine
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I was today years old when I learned that a travel guide was produced for the Game Boy in 1991 and that it has a cute little pixel animation to represent the character of each major city it covers.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wii Mii Plaza lobby without a Peter Griffin or Darth Vader, which is weird 

The text: not a cell phone in sight. just people living in the moment
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
DISCLAIMER: Nobody has been eaten by a grue while visiting the MADE. That we know of.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
INSIDE THE MADE You are standing in a playable video game museum. There is a computer here. It has ZORK installed. > PLAY ZORK _
Photo closeup of monitor showing the text adventure game ZORK.People sitting at a computer in the MADE, playing the text adventure game ZORK.People posing for a selfie in the MADE, playing the text adventure game ZORK.
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 14/08/2024
please stop using the term spirit animal
Spirit animal is racist

Patronus was invented by a transphobe. 

I think it's time
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature, allowing the early interactions of humans & machines before things got a little strange. Includes a variety of programs intended as therapists, conversation partners, & opponents.”
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence
A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature, allowing the early interactions of humans and machines before things got a little ...
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works.” - @archive.org blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v...
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | Internet Archive Blogs
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This Tuesday we'll have our usual indie dev coworking @ the MADE, and we'll also have teams from the Game Grove Incubator as special guests sharing their projects with us. Come by if you want to work on your project in community, or help support Game Grove's indie teams by checking out theirs!
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Game Grove Field Trip
Join the Game Grove Incubator teams as they journey to the MADE to meet industry experts, showcase their projects, and receive feedback.
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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Achtung! Wolfenstein 3D on Commodore 64! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WqK...
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Wolfenstein 3D on Commodore 64 Is Crazy Impressive
YouTube video by ThatNukemGuy
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