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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: April 24, 2016

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STORIES FROM THE FEDTERM MANUAL

by Hazed

I’ve been having fun rewriting the FedTerm manual, to go with the new version of the program which Alan has been working on.

Of course I’ve had to write sections for the manual to cover the new features, such as the exchange page which lets you buy and sell with just a click of the mouse. I’ve also had to excise large chunks from the old manual, which cover features that are no longer relevant.

What surprised me was the changes I had to make because of advances in technology. The old manual was written more than ten years ago, before everyone connected to the net using always-on broadband. It talks about “dialling up” your ISP, or using your AOL software to connect to the internet.

How primitive!

It makes me wonder what changes we will see in the next ten years. Maybe by then we’ll all be walking around using augmented reality, or living entirely in a virtual world…

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