Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Tom Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Internet Pets Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:04:40 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <374A91D8.122F@bristol.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: n78.fen.bris.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) Hi there, I don't know how many of you will be interested in this but I thought it was fairly interesting. I was playing Metal Gear a few days ago and when I turned the Playstation off, I caught the end of one of those BBC Learning Zone programmes. Anyway it was about a site on the net which hosts a virtual planet and you can create you own creatures to inhabit it. The server then e-mails you every so often with reports on how they're doing. You can also check out their stats on the main page and see how may times they've eaten, killed, shagged etc. I've created two critters, a herbivore and a carnivore that are still babies and spend all of their time sleeping and playing but I'm hoping they'll grow into fearsome beasties. The server's a bit erratic but if you can find a time when it's working, why not check it out? http://www.technosphere.org.uk Cheers, Tom