The War built the largest military we’d ever fielded. We measured our star fleets by the thousands. Our armies counted hundreds of millions of men and women. We fought across hundreds of star systems. It was the largest war any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for October, 2014
Big business joined the game for the second generation of virtual worlds. They created powerful graphics cards that could use art to bring virtual worlds to life, and companies built the worlds. Kids modified them of course, sometimes against the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II, The Global War as Europeans still call it, only ended after a sustained Allied bombing campaign that turned Germany and Japan into smashed collections of rubble. Germany’s great industries were gone, and Japan’s cities lay flattened and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War made us a nation of warriors. A nation of Veterans. We answered the call of freedom and flew the red white and blue over thousands of battlefields. And red white and blue covered those we carried home. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The earliest virtual worlds were created by kids playing around and looking for something fun to do. They had no connection with other humans and were distributed by literally pinning them to public bulletin boards. Copies were free or cheap[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Liberator was the first new class of support ship fielded in The War. Built by the Cybernetic Families, it was the fastest support ship of the time, able to keep up with warships at maximum acceleration, and the Cowboys[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II in Asia is mostly about the march of American Marines across the Pacific in Western eyes. The Battles of Midway and Coral Sea are taught to our children. But we rarely look at the land war in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The days of the small American military ended when the Shang brought down Yosemite Yards. I was one of those new volunteers. I remember they talked about the draft back then, but after seeing the number of people volunteering those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are many virtual worlds running in time with the physical world that most people see. Second Life is the longest continually running virtual world, dating back to the turn of the millennium, and thousands more have come and gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II in Europe is largely considered the worst war ever waged on Earth by the Western Alliance. The National Socialist government of Germany waged a war for power and genetic purity. Over five million Jews, twenty five million[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…