I am a student in the first year at Jesus College, Oxford studying Philosophy, Politics and Economic...
I am a student in the first year at Jesus College, Oxford studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). I have a pretty unhealthy fascination with the internet, which keeps my life on track.
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One of the most popular uses of the internet is to communicate. Primarily this manifests itself through the huge amount of email that floods through the wirse every day. Yet chatting is always popular too.
Internet chat rooms, especially those favoured by people like myself, such as Internet Relay Chat (modelled on CB radio) are very bland and basic. You type and it appears. Not much scope for creativity!
Previous attempts to 'jazz up' internet chat left the world with the terminally hateful Microsoft Comic Chat and a few graphical 3D avatar sites that didn't work properly. Thank heavens something new has come from Scandinavia!
Habbo Hotel is a chat site with a difference. To enter you have to create a little person called a Habbo and check into a hotel. You can choose everythign about your Habbo's appearance... a great boon. Check out the afro wigs! Once checked in you can check out different, vaguely 3d cartoony rooms. The other characters there are real people - and you can talk to them through your Habbo avatars.
I have only been to this site a few times, but each time I was stuck for hours, transfixed. The backdrops are utterly beautiful, the idea wonderful. The Habbos are sweet and unique - policed by secret cops to clear up the vulgarities and make the hotel (at least it's public rooms) clean for family use.
The subtlety is wonderful. If you are standing one side of the room, you can 'overhear' other people: but only bits of their conversations! You can also shout and whisper too.
You can also order drinks for your Habbo, go clubbing and most fun of all, play games with other real Habbos - eg. Battleships or chess. It's wonderful fun and you will be engrossed. You can, if you like, make a private room and invite your mates up to it. You can lock it. You can furnish it. There isn't a lot you can't do - except fight, which is probably a good thing.
Most people that have been there love it - but be prepared to sacrifice al your bandwidth to its Shockwave beauty. In my opinion - the cost is well worth it. There isn't a lot that would take be away from the geek-chic of IRC, but this is one hell of a contender.
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I'm trying to get into this site at the moment and i've been waiting for 15 mins with continuous retrys (and i've got broadband too!) will probably give up soon, but from what little I've seen so far it is a good site!
janehammill 11.03.2001 12:54
very good op ill definitly take a look sounds a bit more of a laugh than the usual chat room stuff cheers jane,ps please dont take offence re bournemouth i still said in my op that its britains best sea side but to someone like me it has gone down hill you mention its great clubs which obviously would be of great appeal to someone like you but im a doddery old 40 year old etc as for royal bath prices they are obscene and if people are daft enough to pay they have more dosh than sense!
Mar 7th, 2001
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