Old PBBG-related blog post

[Jackolantern]

I found this blog entry from 2000 quite interesting and figured I would share. It is amazing it is still out there nearly 11 years later. It gives a strong hint of the PBBG craze to come. He was right on a few points, such as him mentioning that people want no-plugin browser-based games, of which there were only a handful at the time. But then a few points seem kind of silly today. For example, in true 1999-2001 fashion, he stresses XML to the point that it sounds hopeless if all data is not handled through XML. Of course XML has its place, but XML was covered head-to-toe in hype and buzz back in those days (hence why XHTML exists), but a lot of that hype is gone today (hence why there won't be an XHTML 2.0 lol). And also he talks about the server software for PBBGs like they are custom-written pieces of server code like you would find for client-based games. I guess that is how they did it back then before just thinking to make them simple webpages with existing server-side technology.

Well, check it out, and read some of the comments. They are funny by today's standards ("I can't even afford a windows 3.11 machine. I am stuck on WebTV" LMAO!)

[hallsofvallhalla]

haha that was kewl, thanks for posting. I love reading those older posts and seeing how things change. Yes XML was so huge back then, Everyone thought that was the future.