Comments on: Web Companies And Their Real-World Equivalents http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sang http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/comment-page-1/#comment-599 sang Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:50:09 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/#comment-599 interesting, interesting.... another online addiction, I must proceed with care :) Dave, I'll check out Snow Crash. interesting, interesting.…

another online addiction, I must proceed with care :)

Dave, I’ll check out Snow Crash.

]]> By: webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/comment-page-1/#comment-598 webomatica Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:01:08 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/#comment-598 Heh it's pretty bizarre. Actually I haven't found as many people in there as I thought there would be and they seem obsessed with earning money. But anyhow it's amusing... the graphics are kinda like the Sims or Quake. You just download a client and away you go. I've been going in there like ... once a week because of time constraints but it's always amusing. You can see a lot of stuff in an hour because you can teleport and fly. Heh it’s pretty bizarre. Actually I haven’t found as many people in there as I thought there would be and they seem obsessed with earning money. But anyhow it’s amusing… the graphics are kinda like the Sims or Quake. You just download a client and away you go.

I’ve been going in there like … once a week because of time constraints but it’s always amusing. You can see a lot of stuff in an hour because you can teleport and fly.

]]> By: Dave http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Dave Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:44:27 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/#comment-597 Sang, use your search engine boy! ;-) Here's a link that should get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Supposed to be an online world modeled after Neal Stephenson's Metaverse from Snow Crash (which is an AWESOME book btw, a must read for you and Mr. K.). I haven't tried it out but it sounds like World of Warcrack sans the fighting and orcs. Sang, use your search engine boy! ;-)

Here’s a link that should get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

Supposed to be an online world modeled after Neal Stephenson’s Metaverse from Snow Crash (which is an AWESOME book btw, a must read for you and Mr. K.).

I haven’t tried it out but it sounds like World of Warcrack sans the fighting and orcs.

]]> By: sang http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/comment-page-1/#comment-596 sang Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:58:14 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2006/12/11/websites-and-their-real-world-equivalents/#comment-596 hey jase, what is this 'second life' you've been blogging about? it sounds very orwellian. there's an L&L in new york too, but i haven't been yet... hey jase, what is this ‘second life’ you’ve been blogging about? it sounds very orwellian.

there’s an L&L in new york too, but i haven’t been yet…

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