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{{Short description|American computer programmer}}

'''Tim Anderson''' is an American [[computer programmer]] who helped create the [[adventure game]] ''[[Zork]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Woyke |first=Elizabeth |date=August 22, 2017 |title=The Enduring Legacy of Zork |work=MIT Technology Review |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/22/149560/the-enduring-legacy-of-zork/}}</ref> one of the first works of [[interactive fiction]] and an early descendant of ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure|ADVENT]]'' (also known as ''Colossal Cave Adventure''). The first version of ''Zork'' was written inbetween 1977 and 1977–19791979 in the [[MDL programming language]] on a DEC [[PDP-10]] computer by Anderson, [[Marc Blank]], [[Bruce Daniels]], and [[Dave Lebling]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lammle |first=Rob |date=June 15, 2014 |title=A Brief History of Zork |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29885/eaten-grue-brief-history-zork}}</ref> All four were members of the Dynamic Modeling Group at the [[MIT]] Laboratory for Computer Science. After the success of Zork, Anderson and the other members of the team would go on to found [[Infocom]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nooney |first=Laine |date=Fall 2017 |title=Let's Begin Again |journal=American Journal of Play |volume=10}}</ref>

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