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Cybermom on the run: this week in tech, 20 years ago

Cybermom on the run: this week in tech, 20 years ago

6 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/16/17449428/first-livestreamed-birth-invasion-america-retro-tech-news

This week in 2018 has been dominated by video game news, since the E3 conference in Los Angeles just wrapped up. The most exciting game I could find from this week in 1998 was the Nintendo 64 puzzler Wetrix, which essentially combined Tetris with terraforming. You can dig up the game itself through emulator sites, and Nintendo Life wrote a great piece about its weird development history — it was the accidental byproduct of a completely different project called Vampire Circus, which was sadly never produced.

Otherwise, the news this week tapped a rich vein of anxiety over digital avatars, online privacy, and having your baby on the internet.

Cybermom on the run: this week in tech, 20 years ago

Jun 16, 2018, 2:19pm UTC
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/16/17449428/first-livestreamed-birth-invasion-america-retro-tech-news > This week in 2018 has been dominated by video game news, since the E3 conference in Los Angeles just wrapped up. The most exciting game I could find from this week in 1998 was the Nintendo 64 puzzler Wetrix, which essentially combined Tetris with terraforming. You can dig up the game itself through emulator sites, and Nintendo Life wrote a great piece about its weird development history — it was the accidental byproduct of a completely different project called Vampire Circus, which was sadly never produced. > Otherwise, the news this week tapped a rich vein of anxiety over digital avatars, online privacy, and having your baby on the internet.