This Company Wants to Resurrect a Revolutionary Video Game Idea

Decades ago, before the Internet was a gleam in Uncle Sam's eye, computers were stupid. Not in the sense of being primitive, though they were also that, but in the literal sense of being internally braindead. So stupid, in fact, that we nicknamed this prehistoric, biz-angled species of keyboard-and-monitor "dumb terminals"--slang for intentionally complexity-allergic vessels into which content was beamed by sophisticated, centrally located machines that filled rooms like squadrons of refrigerators. In old-school parlance, we called those machines "mainframes." In today-speak, you might call them cloud servers.