David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…Oh, nice! Which I totally remember playing on my really early PC in my room growing up in elementary school that my parents bought for me. It was like, “Oh! It’s educational. That must be okay for kids.” But this was mid-90s. The internet sort of bubble was just starting. The internet and the tech bubble was just starting to form. And this was but the start of a whole chain of crazy, totally nuts 90s stock deals that ended up happening, which we’ll get into in a minute that resulted in the crazy ownership that we talked about earlier. But before that, later in 1994, Warcraft comes out and this is the first huge, huge hit that Blizzard has on their hands. Unfortunately, they kind of sold the company at the wrong time because they sold it before it comes out. But Warcraft was really the first game that popularized this real-time strategy genre among PC gamers, becomes a huge hit. You can play against the computer on your own which lots of people did. But it also had multiplayer over LAN. So if you had LAN parties and you could – local area network, sort of like precursor to the local networking not on the internet. You can play against other people who brought their own computers over, but you could also sort of through some third party software hack to – and I remember doing this with the original Xbox too, you could hack the multiplayer so that you could play online against other people who weren’t physically there with you. Oh. Is that before the Xbox Live style thing?…

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