Comments on: Updating the timeline — help needed

By: Wonderland: May 2006

Wonderland: May 2006 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:58:27 +0000

[...] Raph Koster is welcoming assistance in updating his comprehensive timeline of developments in online worlds. Fancy pitching in? Info and guidelines are over yonder. [...]

By: Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:30:18 +0000

Raph>The PLATO stuff in particular seesm to cause a lot of contention.

Apart from the fact that the PLATO people tend to argue among themselves over what came first, there’s a very strong “PLATO did everything worthwhile years before anyone else did” lobby that can get quite revisionist at times. Often it’s true, they did do it first there, but for virtual worlds it’s in the “Chinese explorers discovered North America before Columbus” category: not part of the audit trail.

It’s one thing to categorise games such as Orthanc as being the earliest virtual worlds, but another thing entirely to claim that they have in any way influenced, say, World of Warcraft.

Richard

By: Grimwell Online :: View topic - Help update the timeline

Grimwell Online :: View topic - Help update the timeline — Sun, 07 May 2006 20:18:31 +0000

[...] I screwed up in my email transfer from SOE and lost 4 years worth of submissions to the mud timeline. I have a blog post up with criteria: http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/05/updating-the-timeline-help-needed/ Help? [...]

By: f13.net forums - Timeline help needed

f13.net forums - Timeline help needed — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:49:01 +0000

[...] I screwed up in my email transfer from SOE and lost 4 years worth of submissions to the mud timeline.I have a blog post up with criteria: http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/05/updating-the-timeline-help-needed/Help? [...]

By: Raph

Raph — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:35:13 +0000

Blargh, I just found that in the transition out of the SOE email system, I forgot to grab the four years worth of accumulated timeline submissions that people had sent me. So now I need submissions even MORE, because I lost everything I did have.

By: anonymos

anonymos — Sun, 07 May 2006 02:52:25 +0000

Might want to check out this site, forgot where I found it: http://www.gameinnovation.org/index.php/Main_Page

By: Raph

Raph — Sat, 06 May 2006 20:54:21 +0000

I have avoided simply making it open in the past because of some of the controversies actually. The PLATO stuff in particular seesm to cause a lot of contention between people arguing about which program was written by who first…

I’ve avoided pictures in the past because of the load time on the timeline, but it’d probably be nice to gather some of them. There are advantages to having it exist as just a text file.

I can post a preview, but usually I just update as new comments come in and let inaccuracies stand until corrected.

By: Kim Pallister

Kim Pallister — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:56:57 +0000

I haven’t checked, but you’d think such a list might exist up on wikipedia, and if not, you may want to post it up there, rather than have to do all the housekeeping yourself.

By: Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:10:30 +0000

Will we get to see a preview of the result before you publish it formally? Just in case there’s a clash of memories. Oh, and will you want pictures/screenshots?

Richard

By: Orrey

Orrey — Sat, 06 May 2006 01:29:55 +0000

significant tochstone events, controversies, etc – Hmm I’d think Fansy the Bard would count there. 2001-07

http://www.notaddicted.com/fansythefamous.php