games and games and games

I guess i am pretty lucky having to experience web1.0 and web2.0 hence knowing the benefits of multimedia in web2.0. Now, the web is way more interactive, and with the addition of multimedia, websites have become more engaging, online games have become possible and many tools are now available on our fingertips. Last time back in secondary school, before maplestory become popular, i used to play heliattack2 with my friends online! We used to be really crazy over this game and compete who could get farther in the game. There was pretty much no end to the game, at least according to our efforts throughout secondary school years. You can try playing the game here! It’s still available in miniclip! How could we forget neopets??? It was such a craze in the past, i lost my account in the past but have since created a new one out of fun! Just to play those classic games like meerca chase and hasee bounce. 

It was also only possible as a web application with the introduction of web2.0. We spent a lot of time online, playing such games at home and bragging our highscores to our friends when we are back in school the subsequent day. 

With university and many other commitments now, games seem to become a thing of the past. Even more so as I soon lose my interest in gaming, unlike secondary school days when we used to say “see you online later!” when we ended class everyday. I didn't really study during secondary school which wasn’t a good thing, and i was heavily addicted to online games. While the Maplestory craze was still going on, another crowd craze hit us again. This time, it is Facebook games. Farmville, Restaurant Story, Mafia Wars, Backyard Monsters, all of these caught the attention of Facebook users young and old.

I was one of them who caught on it too. I was really addicted to Restaurant Story, always worrying that my food will be “overcooked” and finding the fastest way to gain money or experience. I found that tomato bisque which only took 30 minutes to cook was the most “worth it” and safest option. 15 minutes intervals for my food seemed to cook too fast for me to handle. Instead, from time to time, i will check back on my computer and collect the food. This had me very glued on to the computer. After school, I would go on quests or simply start slaying monsters in maplestory and i will alt+tab at intervals to check on the food in restaurant story. As you can tell, i was deeply engrossed in games! 

Games aside, other web applications also help us in our everyday life! and one of the apps online that really helped my family was Google Maps. Last year when we were in France, we wanted to take the same photo as the past, when brother and I stood at a ledge for a photo with the Eiffel Tower. However there were 4 sides, which left us thinking which side could it be, and every side was quite a fair bit of distance away. To make matters worse, we had a very tight timeframe  at the Eiffel Tower as we wanted to explore other areas. Instead of walking around, we relied on Google Maps the night before to do the walking for us and planning which station to alight. As such, we managed to find the same spot where we took the photo and it was a different spot from what we initially planned! You can actually view it in “street view” and click directional arrows, a technology that is wondrously clever and navigate around. 

This was what it looked like when i tried navigating using google street view!
Here go give it a try! there are arrows on the ground that allows you to travel around :)

As we angled the viewpoints at certain spots, we managed to narrow the area that we last stood over a decade ago and take the same photograph!