Tag: network
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Why are online services on gaming consoles paid as opposed to free online on PC?
PC online gaming at one point, used to be paid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network The early days of online gaming was indeed monetized through subscription service ^ like TEN for example. This is because they can provide less latency than the common dialup connections of the time. http://ten.net/199706/html/games_on_ten.html FYI Ten’s very 1990s website is STILL up and able…
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Entrepeneurship
All my life I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur. When I was a kid, I’d tinker around with all sorts of things to try to find a solution to what I perceived to be a problem. In middle school, I must’ve made a ton of quite useless inventions, including a retractable pencil and a pencil…