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<font size=3>Andrew,<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Other worlds closing soon? None with quite as much history due to
close soon (that I know of). <br><br>
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.<br><br>
Henry<br><br>
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At 05:29 PM 8/4/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.<br>
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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.<br><br>
Andrew<br><br>
Henry Lowood wrote: <br>
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</font><h2><b>From the HTGG blog:<br>
"Lost Server Connection": The Last Minutes of a Virtual
World"</b></h2><font size=3><br><br>
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/239" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/239</a><br><br>
Henry<br><br>
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Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;<br>
Film & Media Collections<br>
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall<br>
Stanford University Libraries<br>
Stanford CA 94305-6004<br>
650-723-4602;
<a href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu">lowood@stanford.edu</a>;
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood</a> <br><br>
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Film & Media Collections<br>
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