Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:39 AM
Remember back in the day when the internet was (relatively) new, and we were all discovering the joys of hand-written web pages (with notepad, no graphical stuff), playing XWing vs. Tie Fighter online in MSN's Zone (I was part of LSF: Last Starfighter League which routinely playing in Weekends of War...that's WoW before it became World of Warcraft), and chatting it up with friends on ICQ (who uses THAT anymore eh?).
But now...now the internet is just so...BORING. I mean, its become as routine as a cell phone: of COURSE I'll talk to people over messenger, who doesn't? Games are just one clone of another of another (I'm burnt out by FPS other than XBox titles...having good multiplayer where friends can play means more than graphics and realism to me), and there's so much software out there...why build your own when you could just buy or get for free? Even programming tools...Visual Studio used to be a big deal...now anyone can just download the free versions.
The internet has become a consumer appliance, and although the new stuff from Microsoft around Vista and .NET 3.0 is kewl, its not revolutionary. WPF is just Microsoft's Flash...which has been around for a long time. Vista is MS's version of OS X.
So yeah...just ramblings of a disgruntled 30-something geek I guess...
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