the game (here:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/adblurb/gameId,2164/ )
I was discussing some old games with someone and remembered this almost prophetic game. Done in 1987 you basically are an astronaut who returns to earth and finds everyone gone. You use a network similar to the WWW to find out what happened.
Very cool game/novel, and uncannily describes a system like the www turned out to be
