NOT EVERY 70s MIXTAPE PLAYED MUSIC.

When I was a kid, I had a Commodore VIC-20 and played Zork over our dial-up modem until my Dad got a bill from Compuserve. The early Internet was not cheap.

The VIC-20 had a tape machine to load and save programs onto audio cassette. There was a mall near my house with a store selling cassette games on consignment. They were sealed in Ziploc bags with a little hand typed ruled notecard and hung on a punchboard behind the counter.

At the time, audio cassettes were a self-publishing miracle. We recorded ourselves, the dog, the TV, whatever. But somewhere, people were also coding on these and handing them out just like mixtapes.

Now, each time I find something special on GitHub I think about those cassettes. This site is my version of that punchboard, a mixtape of small projects and interesting things I think are worth sharing.