A friend from Microsoft completely floored me today when he pointed me to a note from Dave Winer that pointed to a comment by Jenny Levine referencing a paper I wrote for a Stanford course on the history of computer games.
When I received the link to the paper, I wondered if the "Eric Albert" who authored it was me. I didn't recall writing it. Now that I've skimmed it, I remember writing it, and I can't believe it's online. Even more than that, though, I can't believe that someone not only found the paper, but read it. Wow. I don't know how I think about having random people (and especially friends) reading a paper that I probably wrote at the last minute and which certainly shouldn't be held up as a shining example of historical writing.
For what it's worth, the only thing I really recall from that paper is my work to get the DOS version of SimCity to run on any computer I had access to. I think I finally did it by installing DOS in Virtual PC, but I couldn't get it to run under Windows.