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	<title>Comments on: Second Life == Gopher of Virtual Worlds?</title>
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	<description>Accept no substitutes</description>
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		<title>By: Brian Payst</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Payst</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, that whole moving a mouse and clicking thing really has held back the growth of the web. It&#039;s much easier to figure out how to sit on a sphere and interact with a tool menu overlay full of random icons. Sorry about the loss of the homestead, you were probably sitting on some property that has been bought for one of those trendy mixed-use developments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, that whole moving a mouse and clicking thing really has held back the growth of the web. It&#8217;s much easier to figure out how to sit on a sphere and interact with a tool menu overlay full of random icons. Sorry about the loss of the homestead, you were probably sitting on some property that has been bought for one of those trendy mixed-use developments.</p>
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		<title>By: Edward Vielmetti</title>
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		<dc:creator>Edward Vielmetti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;gopher of virtual words&quot; is a funny image, because there was a TurboGopher VR:

The Power Mac-only TurboGopher VR, from the University of Minnesota Gopher Team, is best described as the unholy marriage of Spectre (the 3D tank game from Velocity Development) and TurboGopher. Actually, I think TurboGopher VR is extremely cool -- whenever you enter a new Gopher menu, TurboGopher VR drops you with a thud into a Spectre-like three-dimensional scene containing what look a bit like stone monoliths littering the countryside. Roll up to one and you can read its title (the same as you&#039;d see in one of TurboGopher&#039;s normal text lists) and click on it to go into it.

http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/iskm3html/pt4/ch24/ch24.html

and if you chase the people in this project forward in time you get Open Croquet:

http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page

which would be a plausible &quot;www for virtual worlds&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;gopher of virtual words&#8221; is a funny image, because there was a TurboGopher VR:</p>
<p>The Power Mac-only TurboGopher VR, from the University of Minnesota Gopher Team, is best described as the unholy marriage of Spectre (the 3D tank game from Velocity Development) and TurboGopher. Actually, I think TurboGopher VR is extremely cool &#8212; whenever you enter a new Gopher menu, TurboGopher VR drops you with a thud into a Spectre-like three-dimensional scene containing what look a bit like stone monoliths littering the countryside. Roll up to one and you can read its title (the same as you&#8217;d see in one of TurboGopher&#8217;s normal text lists) and click on it to go into it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/iskm3html/pt4/ch24/ch24.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/iskm3html/pt4/ch24/ch24.html</a></p>
<p>and if you chase the people in this project forward in time you get Open Croquet:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></p>
<p>which would be a plausible &#8220;www for virtual worlds&#8221;.</p>
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