the this blog i wanted to go over a a new technology that i recently have signed up with.
the majority of my life i lived on a farm in the far north of Alberta, we lived half an hour from the nearest town of 6000 people. (give or take a few hundred people) so live was alot more simple and slowed down then it is in Toronto. Most people i know in Toronto are from Toronto or the GTA at least, so they all seem to be so much more connected on the internet then i am. They all seem to know all the cool websites and trends happening. I grew up with dial up internet until i was 19-20 years old! Needless to say I always feel a few steps behind the current youth of Toronto.
Anyway with that back story out of the way id like to talk about X-Box live. I was 23 when i first signed up with X-Box live. I never played much online gaming before then, and i still dont go over board with it but i absolutly love playing sport games online with my friends. What i love about it so much is the fact that i can plug in my headphones and i can play a game with my friends who still live in Edmonton like i was sitting right there next to them. It really has helped my friendships with friends who i do not talk to very much regularly on something such as facebook or twitter. I even play Call of Duty with my dad!
X-Box live is pretty amazing, it was launched in 2003 and since then they have over 40 MILLION people signed up! I find that pretty unreal! especially since a membership costs about 40-50 dollars a year! Think about it, if half the people that use it have a membership for a year, that's a BILLION DOLLARS! - that's a alot of potato chips!
These games have become so insanely real its crazy to think what's going to happen in the next like 5-10 years of gaming, i think almost all of the games will be played online. Who knows what's going to happen in 100 years! when the X-Box is a glowing orb that floats in the middle of the room and you sign into it using your mind then your INSIDE THE GAME!....hopefully ill be alive to see that!
