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WEB FED NEWS YEARBOOKS Earthdate June 1998 |
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WEB FED NEWS YEARBOOKS Earthdate June 1998 |
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OFFICIAL
NEWS |
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What was in June 1998's Official News:
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THE MONTH IN BRIEF June was a quiet month; usage always drops in summer and this month there was the added attraction of the World Cup keeping players out of the game. Still no news on the Duke puzzle... The free weekend finished on the morning of the first day of the month. Rough estimates show about 200 new GroundHogs over the course of the weekend; that's excluding players who died dead-dead during the Armageddon fighting event, or as free-lancers, and came back as Poor People - there were about 200 corpses piled on various landing pads by the time the weekend was over. A new version of FedTerm Lite was released, which fixed a number of bugs and annoyances from the previous version. The Duchy Review event had a very special guest: the demi-Goddess Hazed. You can read the transcript of her appearance at http://www.ibgames.net/federation/events/duchyreview/hazed.txt. Alan Lenton started his own website a http://www.ibgames.net/alan/.
PROBLEMS HAPPEN ON THE INTERNET! You know when sometimes some dumb construction worker drills through a cable somewhere, and the power goes off in your house? Well these accidents happen on the Internet, too. Last Thursday, someone accidentally severed a fiber optic cable somewhere under 42nd Street in New York, cutting off long-distance calls to much of the East Coast and slowing the Internet down considerably. So if you were suffering poor connections and lag on Thursday, now you know why! Some Internet Service Providers were losing up to 88% of their data during the early hours of the outage which happened early in the morning. MCI engineers have now spliced in cables to circumvent the break, so service is back to normal.
Fed up with the saturation coverage of the World Cup? Then come join the oppressed masses in Federation DataSpace. Desperate to get away from the relentless onslaught of soccer, people have been cowering in Chez Diesel, grateful for the Freedom from Football pledge - she has even removed all holographic screens from the bar until after the event has finished, to make sure the dreaded F-word doesn't get broadcast even by accident. I myself was so sick of football, football, nothing but football that I considered making it a lockable offence to even mention the word in Fed. But not wanting to seem too extreme, I dropped that idea; those who transgress will now simply earn a stern glare from me.
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