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August 05, 2008
"Lost Server Connection": The Last Minutes of a Virtual World
Our own Henry Lowood has posted up a piece called "Lost Server Connection": The Last Minutes of a Virtual World, where he details the end and demise of EA-Land/The Sims Online, captured by Alex Degtiar. Check the post for much more detail. This sort of preservation work is a totally unique and one-off area, which no kind of book or interview can capture after the fact. (read on for the video)
The 5 minute ending video is quite touching, here's an embedded version of it (although the download is of much better quality):
Posted by AndrewArmstrong at August 5, 2008 02:57 PM