Those good old versions...

Everyone heard of "those good old days....." and related stories everyone else has. I too have several similar stories but I am going to bore you with those. Lets talk about the sister stories of those old days related to good old versions of the software products we use. Look at the following:

Old Versions Available of Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Messenger 3.0 (1.3 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 3.5 (1.9 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 4.1 (2.3 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 5.0 (2.2 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 5.5.1228 (2.6 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 6.1922 (4.5 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (8.2 MB)
Yahoo Messenger 7.5.0.647 (7.7 MB)
AT and T Yahoo Messenger 8.0 (21 MB)


Most of you already see the problem here! Right? The size of the installation executable
has been increasing exponentially lately for all the things that a messanger isn't supposed to have. The latest version of Yahoo messenger has a list 6 hide/show things (status chooser, people tabs, toolbar, content tabs and Yahoo search bar) in it. And it installs 5 other things (Yahoo mail, Yahoo toolbar, Yahoo manager, Yahoo blah, and one more blah) on your hard drive along with the messenger. It also has an annoying and flashy advertisement bar in it.

Increasing the size of the installation exe just doesn't make sense, not everyone has a
highspeed internet and compared to 1.3 MBs to the latest version of 21 MBs is almost 20 times
increased in the size, has Yahoo messenger become 20 time more useful? At least I don't think so!

I am using the older version of Yahoo messenger and it works just fine without any of those people's tab and blah..

MSN messenger, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Winamp, Window Media Player, and most other things its the same story ....those old good versions.

Real Economy of Fake Gold

Internet has invented its own virtual gold which has a real economy. This gold is called WoW Gold. WoW Gold is mined, refined, sold, bought, traded, auctioned, and monitored online. WoW (World of Warcraft) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. In Wow thousands of players adventure together in an enormous, persistent game world, forming friendships, slaying monsters, and engaging in epic quests that can span days or weeks. In such games thousands of players exist in the same game world at the same time. This creates an incredibly rich and active environment in which interesting things are constantly taking place. Often online multiplayer games provide thousands of hours of game play and nearly infinite variety of goals to achieve across a vast world covering miles of land and sea—all virtual. WoW Gold in such a game is like a weapon that puts a player in advantageous position. In fact, possession of WoW Gold is absolutely necessary in the game. WoW Gold is really an unknown memory location on a Silicon disk(s) on thousands of servers around the world on which game is programmed and played. It is left to players to discover the WoW Gold and continue to be a player. It is much fun to be a player than a “gold miner” so if you do not want to mine your own WoW gold—you can buy it online (in real dollars) and keep yourself engaged in WoW which can last several weeks. The WoW gold mining has been outsourced and there are hundreds of thousands of people in China who are employed in this WoW Gold mining industry and all they do is click click click and click using there mice on computers mining WoW Gold in Silicon fields. Search "WoW gold" on your favorite search engine on internet and see the tangible economy of intangible gold. The size of the gaming industry has been estimated larger than the film industry.