A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like ER Postman sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
