{"id":769,"date":"2011-05-17T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T16:11:56","slug":"the-11-most-influential-virtual-worlds-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/769\/the-11-most-influential-virtual-worlds-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The 11 Most Influential Online Worlds of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/228000\/the_11_most_influential_online_worlds_of_all_time.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/influential_online_worlds_small.jpg\" alt=\"The 11 Most Influential Virtual Worlds of All Time on PCWorld.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CYBERSPACE <em>(echo, echo, echo&#8230;)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The future of mankind or an ingenious scheme to sell virtual furniture for real money?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done a slideshow where I attempted to quantify the unquantifiable and rank a series of things in order from least to greatest.  I&#8217;m typically not a fan of the format because the results are always subjective, but I still think it works because it stimulates public thought and gives me a good excuse to both entertain and educate on a subject I love.<\/p>\n<p>The subject, in this case, is online worlds, where people gather together in virtual space to buy\/sell mouse-crafted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Furry_fandom\" target=\"_blank\">Furry<\/a> outfits, chat about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LARP\" target=\"_blank\">LARPing<\/a>, and construct entire worlds filled with simulated genitalia.<\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, I present to you &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/228000\/the_11_most_influential_online_worlds_of_all_time.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 11 Most Influential Virtual Worlds of All Time<\/a>&#8221; over at PC World.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done reading\/pounding your fists, feel free to tell us about your favorite online worlds in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CYBERSPACE (echo, echo, echo&#8230;): The future of mankind or an ingenious scheme to sell virtual furniture for real money? It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done a slideshow where I attempted to quantify the unquantifiable and rank a series of things in order from least to greatest. I&#8217;m typically not a fan of the format [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,7,24,35,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-internet-history","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}