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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: NY
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Was reorganizing the basement Apple Museum today and went back in time reading my eWorld documentation.
Anyone use eWorld? What are your memories? I thought the concept was cool at the time. It was different from todays Facebook type media. Would it have become another Facebook if it had made it?
Would you like to see a 2012 version, and if so, how would we interact with it? What would it offer? Touch interface?
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" All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
Sun Tzu
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Baninated
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cambridge, Chicago, Jerusalem (school/home/heart)
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I totally used it, nearly from the beginning to the moment it was shut down. I miss eWorld. It was awesome, the people didn't suck and it was small and fun.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cambridge, Chicago, Jerusalem (school/home/heart)
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Oh my eWorld! Man this always comes up here and there every year in the Apple community. Back when this kind of stuff looked cute and like a cartoon. Social media the way it should be? Does eWorld make Google+ look like a droopy eyed armless child?
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: NY
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Originally Posted by bstone 
I totally used it, nearly from the beginning to the moment it was shut down. I miss eWorld. It was awesome, the people didn't suck and it was small and fun.
Yes, the people were so nice.
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" All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
Sun Tzu
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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How was it different from 1990s AOL (on which it was based)? I never got around to trying it, unfortunately.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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I was a member also form almost the beginning until it shut down. I don't remember much about it other than the people did seem nice. The whole village concept was cool and I liked the soft, childlike GUI compared to the garishness that was prodigy- where I switched from.
One of my favorite bits was the integration with the Newton. Ahhhh... some of my favorite dead-end technology rolled into one.
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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How was the Newton integrated?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Maysville, NC
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I still have the install cd. 
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
How was the Newton integrated?
Not as exciting as you might think- at least by today's standards, but at the time I think it might have been the only way to do email on a newton. I remember the drama when they announced eWorld going away they had to update the Newton to allow AOL email.
I don't remember if there was anything else you could do eWorld wise, but back then, email from a handheld device was the bomb.
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
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Originally Posted by bstone
I totally used it, nearly from the beginning to the moment it was shut down. I miss eWorld. It was awesome, the people didn't suck and it was small and fun.
I second that!
It was my first contact to the internet and also the only time when I tried a one-on-one chat with a complete stranger (from New York as far as I remember)...
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: NY
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Originally Posted by ctt1wbw
I still have the install cd.
Ditto.
Also have it installed on a Performa 630 CD covered on a shelf. Man, I was hot to pick up that 630. It came with a CD DRIVE!!!!
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" All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
Sun Tzu
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Salamanca, España
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Originally Posted by glideslope
Ditto.
Also have it installed on a Performa 630 CD covered on a shelf. Man, I was hot to pick up that 630. It came with a CD DRIVE!!!!
Ah I had one of those! Beautiful 040LC machine.
I have fond memories.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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