How Early Computer Games Influenced Internet Culture

[rygD]

I thought this was a fun little read that many here might appreciate.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ter-games-influenced-internet-culture/478167/

 

[_jr_]

The article is a little strong on 'I think ...', 'I strongly believe ...' etc. without much actual evidence. Apropos 'I think...', I think that internet culture actually isn't a good example of creativity or the other values described in the article.

 

[Wally]

Early games influencing Internet Culture? Most people who made games back then had no idea what the internet was..

 

[levi]

We're a long way south of The September that Never Ended (TM) when AOL opened up to the newsgroups, so the internet's not been strictly academic for a long time now.

But yeah, I don't really buy the premise of the article either. So Atari was open, but they imploded. By the time the open internet became mainstream, gaming had been a closed shop for years. Sure, hacker culture was alive and well in home computers and the likes, but the majority of gamers probably weren't home computer users post 1985.