Maybe Nabu would have been successful if someone had written Nabu For Dummies in 1982.

I was playing Nabu games with a friend the other night while discussing the company. It had occurred to me that it became so popular today is a testament to how forward-thinking the computer network was. It indeed was the internet before the internet.

I reflect on the Apple Macintosh manual, in which a significant portion is dedicated to introducing a mouse and graphical interface. It's common sense today, but it was also voodoo to the people at the time. It's hard to embrace technology when there is nothing else to compare.

Consider this: computers had 64k of RAM at the time, and their storage was limited to floppy disks that were storing 360kb or 720kb. This limited the amount of interactive graphics, sound, and animations per program. The Nabu experience was able to pull megabytes of data off the coax cable to provide an exploding of entertaining multimedia! Yet, that wasn't enough when the voodoo hoodoo was 20+ years ahead of its time.

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