Comments on: Second Lives http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2007/01/08/second-lives/ The adventures of Joshua M. Neff, the Cartoon Goblin Thu, 17 May 2012 03:31:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: josh http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2007/01/08/second-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 josh Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:17:29 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2007/01/08/second-lives/#comment-1404 No, I pretty much feel the same way. I think the overall experience (a 3-D avatar in a 3-D environment) is amazing, and the fact that you can make yourself look like almost anything and fly around is great. But after you get over that, it seems like I was just wandering around and occasionally chatting with people, which I can do on the reg'lar ol' 2-D internet. But then, the World Wide Web in 1994 wasn't all that exciting either (unless you were a devoted follower of Kibo or hot for Star Trek fan sites). I think there's some potential in SL. If people take the source code and start doing weird and wacky things with it...well, that excites me. I think of it this way: 1994--GeoCities, 2006--WordPress; 2006--Second Life, 2018--? No, I pretty much feel the same way. I think the overall experience (a 3-D avatar in a 3-D environment) is amazing, and the fact that you can make yourself look like almost anything and fly around is great. But after you get over that, it seems like I was just wandering around and occasionally chatting with people, which I can do on the reg’lar ol’ 2-D internet.

But then, the World Wide Web in 1994 wasn’t all that exciting either (unless you were a devoted follower of Kibo or hot for Star Trek fan sites). I think there’s some potential in SL. If people take the source code and start doing weird and wacky things with it…well, that excites me.

I think of it this way: 1994–GeoCities, 2006–WordPress; 2006–Second Life, 2018–?

]]> By: Jessica http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2007/01/08/second-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-1403 Jessica Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:09:10 +0000 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2007/01/08/second-lives/#comment-1403 OK, I admit it - I simply cannot get into Second Life. I don't get it. I think perhaps it's a good thing I don't get it - like I need one more online activity to suck up all my time... Does this make me a bad geek? OK, I admit it – I simply cannot get into Second Life. I don’t get it. I think perhaps it’s a good thing I don’t get it – like I need one more online activity to suck up all my time…
Does this make me a bad geek?

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