Twenty-seven cartridge rooms in the spirit of foundational design software from 1963 forward — a constraint sketch room (1963, TX-2), a node-editor pair (1966/1968, TX-2 + RAND GRaIL), a CSG ray-casting room (1972, IBM 360), a B-rep solid modeler (1973, Cambridge Titan), a 3D surfacing program (1985), a desktop layout program (1985), a vector drawing program (1987), a card-stack authoring room (1987), a sampling workstation with a light pen and a green phosphor screen (1983, Fairlight CMI), a NIB-archive interface builder (1988, NeXTSTEP), a long-document structured-paragraph room (1989, NeXTSTEP), a raster paint program (1990), a multimedia timeline (1990), a typeface editor (1990), the first web browser-editor (1990, also NeXTSTEP), a WYSIWYG HTML editor (1997), a non-linear video editor (1999), and a word-processor room with five paradigms on a selector (WordStar through the minimal Markdown column, 1980→now), and a 3D-modelling room with seven hands on a selector — the surfaces-from-curves NURBS lineage from the 1963 constraint console to the modern control-net modeller (1963→now), and a node-graph 3-D modelling room where everything becomes a node — a dependency graph you can edit, animate and render, the day a Toronto modeller first reached the Mac (2001), and a real-time ray tracing room where you drag a material onto a teapot and a photograph resolves in front of you — grainy first, then clean (2007).

Cart 017 — WRDZ — is a word processor with five faces: WordStar's chord, WordPerfect's visible codes, the Mac's page, Word's ribbon-and-squiggle, and the modern minimal — one paragraph pushed through each, to feel how the tool shapes the writing.

Plus five theory wings. CANON · 001B · THE LITERATURE, CANON2 · 002B · WHAT YOU SEE, CANON3 · 003B · THE INBETWEEN, CANON4 · 004B · INSTRUCTION, and CANON5 · 005B · GENERATION form the B-series — where the A-series rooms let you use tools, the B-series rooms let you hear what the tools were built on. 001B is the rendering canon: seventeen tracks, fifty years of computer graphics history — Bush, Sutherland, Bézier, Gouraud, Phong, Catmull, Whitted, Perlin, Kajiya, Reynolds, Lasseter, Smith — read aloud. 002B is the page canon, the companion story: fifteen tracks, 1962 to 1990, on how the screen itself became an honest, visible, editable surface — Engelbart, Nelson, Kay, Shoup, Bravo and Gypsy, Knuth, Star, Shneiderman, PostScript, Porter and Duff, the Macintosh, NeXTSTEP, Berners-Lee. 003B is the motion canon: fourteen tracks, 1878 to 1981, on the single line from interpolation to generation — Muybridge, Disney, Burtnyk and Wein, Catmull, Kochanek and Bartels, Lasseter, Reynolds, the non-linear timeline, Beier and Neely, the blend, Sims, optical flow. It is built to move while it reads. 004B is the instruction canon: fifteen tracks, 1843 to now, on what a program even is and how telling a machine what to do became progressively more human — Lovelace, Turing, von Neumann, the ENIAC programmers, Hopper, FORTRAN, BASIC, VisiCalc, Maeda, the Sutherlands, Max, Grasshopper. 005B is the generation canon and the wing's close: fifteen tracks, 1952 to now, on the machine that makes what no hand drew — Turing's morphogenesis, L-systems, Perlin, boids, the Game of Life, genetic algorithms, biomorphs, Sims, Nervous System, GANs, diffusion, transformers. The volumes cross on the alpha channel and again on Lasseter, and Turing stands at both ends of the instruction-and-generation story — the universal machine in 004B, the pattern that makes itself in 005B.

Each room is a clean-room reconstruction: chrome extrapolated from period screenshots and manuals, tools written from scratch, no proprietary code or assets used. Each room is one self-contained index.html.

On a phone, every A-series room shows a yellow bar at the bottom — HELP, ROOMS, ABOUT — so the period chrome stays at its 1024-pixel museum scale while reading and navigation get finger-sized. The theory wing is desktop-first.

The cartridges are intentionally not named the originals. Use the folder labels — SP, NDZ, SV, BLD, ALYUS, PM, AI, HC, IB, FM, PS, DIRTR, FG, WWW, DW, FCP, WRDZ, UNRSN, MAYX, HSONE, CANON, CANON2 — as the names of the rooms.

Cart 016 — NDZ — goes back to the TX-2 and the RAND Tablet, where the node editor forked at birth. Sutherland's data-flow graph in 1966 (a node simply is, everything downstream re-settles at once) and Ellis's GRaIL flowchart in 1968 (a token walks the chart, branching, looping) are the two minds every node tool since — Houdini, Nuke, Grasshopper, Blender's shader graph, every wizard, every Blueprint — has quietly inherited. Both playgrounds genuinely run.

The NeXTSTEP rooms are a small constellation. IB (Interface Builder, 1988) is Hullot's invention — drag windows and menus onto canvases, wire them, save the NIB. WWW (WorldWideWeb, 1990) was built in IB by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXT Cube — browser and editor in the same window. FM (FrameMaker NS, 1989) sits between them. All three share NeXT's magnesium chrome, blue selection, charcoal titlebars. They point back at CANON track 02, Vannevar Bush's 1945 As We May Think, the memex essay the NeXT was the long-delayed answer to. DW (Dreamweaver, 1997) was still trying to get the editing back.

Classicery is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any of the companies or persons who created the original software these rooms reference. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Canon audio voiced via ElevenLabs; chapter texts drafted by Claude (ILCA process) with Phil Renato.