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"In the process of that I have quietly gotten them to backup their documents to the cloud […]"

Are you saying you are/would be storing someone else's data "in the cloud" without their consent/knowledge?

Or try World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) ;)

Actually, I do use ed(1) quite regularly. Sometimes I invoke it in conjunction with rlwrap(1), but plain 'ed' or even 'restricted ed' is just fine. :)

Ever had display problems using ncurses-based programs over a serial connection? I did and I was happy to have a line editor at my disposal…

> Also very cool was the documentation, complete, offline and and with lots of examples.

I think 'online' [1] is the word you wanted to use. ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_help

Just picking a nit here... The 'Mother of all Demos' is from the end of 1968, so the '60s. I've been about 2 months old when that happened. :)

Ah, I almost forgot "The Game That Time Forgot"

http://vimeo.com/97875387

Let's see...

"The birth of a Paradroid" - Paradroid development journal for the C64 by Andrew Braybrook: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html

"Mental Procreation" - Morpheus development journal for the C64 by Andrew Braybrook: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap23/mental1.html

"It's behind you" - R-Type Arcade conversion for the ZX Spectrum, free e-book by Bob Pape: http://bizzley.com/

Free sample pages of the development journals for Prince of Persia and Karateka by Jordan Mechner: http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/

Prince of Persia code analysis after it got open-sourced in 2012; by Fabien Sanglard: http://fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/

Analysis of Pacman; long after the fact: http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html

Any other? I'm sure there must be many nowadays...