tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-55620935221378523272008-04-08T21:34:00.000-04:002008-04-08T21:34:00.000-04:002008-04-08T21:34:00.000-04:00"You ask the computer to contact several friends, and they begin to appear on the screen. Soon you're linked into a worldwide group of people, all of whom can talk to and see each other. After chatting for a while, you decide to play some games together. As you can't agree on what to play, the computer makes up your minds for you. It gives you puzzles to do and devises quizzes, as well as all kinds of electronic games. The computer keeps the scores as you play against one another, and then it gives you games in which you all play the computer. You carry on until someone loses interest and tries to cheat for fun."<BR/><BR/>For something written in 1981, they got that almost exactly right. It describes almost exactly what happens in online servies like xbox live and playstation network.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com