Here’s a quick glimpse at just how much has happened since OtherSpace opened in 1998:
- I’ve had two dogs and four cats. Down to none now, but I’ve traded up to a toddler.
- I’ve had two cars.
- I’ve lived in five apartments, three houses, and a cabin in the woods.
- I’ve lived in Florida, the Pacific Northwest, and North Carolina.
- I’ve worked at three newspapers (St. Petersburg Times, Henderson Daily Dispatch, and Durham Herald-Sun) and three game development companies (Icarus Studios, Bit Trap Studios, Prologue Games).
- We’ve seen three popes and three presidents, so far.
- Netflix has evolved from disc mailing to online streaming.
- Google launched Gmail.
- We’ve seen five Law & Order franchises.
- The Human Genome Project was completed.
- The U.S. launched the War on Terror after 9/11. (Before that, we really never had to take our shoes off at the airport.)
- The last original Peanuts cartoon was published.
- World of Warcraft slammed into the gaming world with the power of an asteroid striking the Yucatan, with text-based games like OtherSpace turning into endangered dinosaurs.
- Star Trek got a reboot with mixed results. We’ve outlived Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.
- Star Wars got three crappy prequels and a decent sequel.
- We’ve been around for the entire Harry Potter movie series (and most of the books – Philosopher’s Stone pre-dates OtherSpace by about a year).