It's peculiar how you can write an article subtitled "The rise and fall of type-in text games" without even mentioning the words Sierra, Zork or Infocom.

Btw, if you played the original Sierra games you'll find this story very interesting (and saddening), How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-o...