Comments on: What do you look like? Spore-style. http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/what-do-you-look-like-spore-style/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » The Underbelly of Open Source: SPORN http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/what-do-you-look-like-spore-style/comment-page-1/#comment-157758 Wikinomics » Blog Archive » The Underbelly of Open Source: SPORN Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/what-do-you-look-like-spore-style/#comment-157758 [...] 31st, 2008, 01:02pm Last month, Jude Fiorillo wrote about a new video game called Spore. Spore was created by EA and is unique because it lets [...] [...] 31st, 2008, 01:02pm Last month, Jude Fiorillo wrote about a new video game called Spore. Spore was created by EA and is unique because it lets [...]

]]> By: Katie Tierney http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/what-do-you-look-like-spore-style/comment-page-1/#comment-142263 Katie Tierney Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:37:31 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/what-do-you-look-like-spore-style/#comment-142263 I went to download it, but the trial version is over 200MB, and I just don't have the patience! So, we'll just have to assume that my creature would be mean-looking, just like me! This 200+ MB download brings me to a random "I-walked-to-school-8-miles-through-the-snow-uphill-both-ways" story. When I was in college (Texas A&M - WHOOOP!), I sold PCs to help pay the bills. This was back in the early 90s. I remember telling a customer that the 120MB drive he was buying was absolutely more storage than he could ever need. I actually said that there was no way on Earth he would ever use 120MB of storage. My how the times have changed. -Katie I went to download it, but the trial version is over 200MB, and I just don’t have the patience! So, we’ll just have to assume that my creature would be mean-looking, just like me!
This 200+ MB download brings me to a random “I-walked-to-school-8-miles-through-the-snow-uphill-both-ways” story. When I was in college (Texas A&M – WHOOOP!), I sold PCs to help pay the bills. This was back in the early 90s. I remember telling a customer that the 120MB drive he was buying was absolutely more storage than he could ever need. I actually said that there was no way on Earth he would ever use 120MB of storage.

My how the times have changed.

-Katie

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