This comic reminded me of the good days of video games.  Myst has to be the first game that really pulled me into what was truely computer gaming, back when playing games meant having a notebook sitting in front of the computer with all sorts of scribbles of code and cryptic pictures sketched out.  Anyone else ever play Desert Strike on SNES and wonder why you had to manually enter a 8+ character secret code to resume progress, a quick brute force calculation says its going to take me 22 months to get it entering 500,000 passwords/second. I don’t know about my controller skills today, but I’m betting in my prime I could only guess about 1 password/minute, I think the online calculator is going to explode if I try to put a fraction in the guess/second box! Those were to good old days, especially if the dog got the sheet of paper with those codes on it, resulting in another all night session with a 2-liter of Surge