Diagrams: everything is connected to everything else
Dungeons and Dragons is connected to Google. From the New York Times (hat tip: Boing Boing).
I am connected to to everything else. This diagram and the accompanying article was written by Adam Rogers who used to work at Wired. I used to write for Wired. I produced a diagram for them that linked video games to everything. It’s six degrees of separation by diagram.
How Pong invented the Internet. From Wired 11/2004. Hat tip: me. I wrote it.
I’ve must have spent a month researching this piece and I wrote tens of thousands of words of notes. The whole thing was boiled down into a network diagram by Wired’s patient design team. One day I’m going to set up a computer games history site. (In the meantime, you can read a brief history of computer games on my personal site.)
Toddie Downs wrote:
I’m in awe. Utter awe. Both of the D&D diagram and of your diagram showcasing the evolution of Pong. I love Wired magazine. I’d sell my spouse to write for them:).
Posted on 10-Mar-08 at 5:24 pm | Permalink
Adam Rogers wrote:
Still at Wired, Mathew, and I still count your chart as one of my favorite things I ever got to edit. (Um…sorry about cutting all those tens of thousands of words, though.)
Posted on 10-Mar-08 at 7:39 pm | Permalink
Matthew Stibbe wrote:
Hi Adam, delighted to hear from you! I’m sill reading Wired with huge enthusiasm and I really enjoyed your D&D diagram. It completely took me back to our games thing and prompted the post!
Posted on 10-Mar-08 at 8:15 pm | Permalink
Bad Language / The pre-history of computer games wrote:
[...] Being a geek historian, back in the day, I used to give lectures at the Game Developers Conference about the history of computer games. You can see an online version on my personal site. I also wrote an article (which ended up as a cool diagram) for Wired about the subject (see previous post). [...]
Posted on 16-May-08 at 7:09 am | Permalink