Text Adventures
Play classic adventure games online (in Java)

The first computer adventure game: Colossal Cave
(“In memoriam, Stephan Bishop 1820-1857″)

Stephen Bishop, cave explorer (at Wikipedia)

More about the original caves and the origin of the Colossal Cave game, in the Inform designer manual

Interactive Fiction

Guides and overviews:

• What Is Interactive Fiction?
• Think like a player
• How to write a great interactive fiction game
• The Player will Get It Wrong

Interactive Fiction Competition
This was the 11th year…