The folks at Squirrel Monkey reimagine modern apps and online services as if they existed decades ago. They do a great job making them look like software did in the 1980s and 1990s. This imaginary 1980s version of Wordle looks and sounds exactly like real PC games of the era. I don't know how they do it!
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New York Times tried to change today's Wordle word that suddenly seemed icky after Politico leak
If you're a Wordle addict, you might want to play today's round before reading this spoiler of a post — unless, that is, you're easily offended by certain politically charged words creeping into your gameplay. In that case, read on. The New York Times, which tries to keep their daily Wordle word "distinct from the… READ THE REST
The mean old New York Times took down a Wordle archive
The New York Times bought Wordle from its creator, so it has the legal right to stop others from offering archives of Wordle. The newspaper-cum-gaming-company did just that this week when it contacted the owner of a Wordle archival site and told them to stop. The archive posted a message that said, "Sadly, the New… READ THE REST
Rivers Cuomo made his own Weezer-themed version of Wordle
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been digging even deeper into his nerd-rock reputation over the last few years, spending much of his non-songwriting time* taking Harvard coding classes online. And for his latest trick, he (along with Marcus Ng) has created Weezle — a playable riff of the popular game Wordle, except all of the… READ THE REST
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