[game_preservation] Lost Server Connection

[Henry Lowood]

Andrew,

We have quite a bit of video on EA-Land and several other worlds that 
we created, plus a huge trove of earlier virtual world captures from 
Bruce Damer.  I rushed the last 5 minutes clip out as a kind of 
preview and because of its timeliness.

Other worlds closing soon?  None with quite as much history due to 
close soon (that I know of).

A propos your comments; I realized after posting this that an exhibit 
that appeared in an exhibition I curated a few years back (Game 
Scenes, at YBCA) had been in TSO, Katherine Isbister and Rainey 
Strauss' virtual Art Gallery.  Gone now, as far as I know.

Henry


At 05:29 PM 8/4/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>That video was quite touching. I never knew much about EA-Land/The 

>Sims Online, imagine all the effort those people left creating their 

>communities in the game all lost. Sucks because they can't even 

>connect to just each other or anything through the game, it requires 

>a dedicated server connection.

>

>Do you know of any further worlds shutting down? I know many already 

>have, just would be interesting to see further videos, not just of 

>them shutting down of course though ;-) but that is an exceptionally 

>less captured area.

>

>Andrew

>

>Henry Lowood wrote:

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>> From the HTGG blog:

>>"Lost Server Connection": The Last Minutes of a Virtual World"

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>>http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/239

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>>Henry

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>>Henry Lowood, Ph.D.

>>Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;

>>  Film & Media Collections

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>>Stanford University Libraries

>>Stanford CA 94305-6004

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>>http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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Henry Lowood
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      Film & Media Collections
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