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April 19th, 2008
The Archives
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04.19.08Virtual Worlds: The Future is in Video Games?My first virtual world was SimCity. Stuffed at the bottom of a drawer somewhere is a printout of the city I created - printed on a dot matrix printer of course, and I figure I still have the MS-DOS floppy disks somewhere. And sure, it didn't have avatars or presence, but it was the idea of interacting with a world that was persistent whether I was paying attention to the screen or not (when I'd get the right set of conditions there was nothing finer than to let the PC run all night and come back to find the city ...
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