Pacman

I looked around at chris.com/ascii some more. This is exactly what middle school kids used to be obsessed with, especially with those super annoying “send to all of your friends or you will never find your true love/you will die a horrible death” forward messages. My friends would send me characters made into the shape of flowers, hearts and all sorts of funny little things. I remember wondering who actually had the time on their hands to do this. It actually is pretty cool though because the whole picture is just composed of small different characters.

Next, I checked out the History of the Internet, Internet for Historians online. I saw an external link titles “An Atlas of Cyberspaces” I really liked this website. I also felt like I am really computer illiterate. From here I found myself in a subsection titled “MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions) and Virtual Worlds” this page talked all about how virtual worlds are created and people can access and play in this worlds. Maps are produced showing the geography of these 3D role-playing games. One such game is “Ever Quest.”

These classes have been both interesting and boring for me. Boring in the sense that it is hard for me to grasp the mechanisms as to how the machinery is made/works therefore I have a hard time keeping up. I constantly am trying to think even in the most rudimentary ways in which these things actually work! However, on the other hand I am very interested because I grew up around video games and I can appreciate the societal meaning of these technologies.