How Early Computer Games Influenced Internet Culture


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