Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)
Summary
Neko: History of a Software Pet chronicles the long life of a cursor-cat program from 1988's NEKO.COM on PC-9801 through multiple platforms, including Macintosh, Windows, OS/2, Amiga, Linux, and the web. The piece emphasizes community-driven preservation, public-domain artwork, and a GitHub archive that tracks the project's evolution and variants.