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This is slightly unfair. Not everything that qualifies for the phrase "changed the world" needs to solve a significant problem like poverty, health or hunger.
by L_Rahman 12y ago
This is slightly unfair.
Not everything that qualifies for the phrase "changed the world" needs to solve a significant problem like poverty, health or hunger.
Sometimes just being present in the minds of a lot of people is sufficient to qualify. 2048 first took over HN for a entire month. I'd open HN every day anticipating a different port. Then it went mainstream and has since been played potentially many thousands even millions of minutes. I think that qualifies as changing the world in a tiny way.
Don't you?
- watwut 12y agoWhat exactly is the changed thing? World before and world after seem exactly the same to me. Instead of talking and cloning flappy bird, people talk about and clone 2048. Even before, people played angry birds and before other game, but I admit they did not cloned them that much - but that change came with flappy jam.
- shrikrishna 12y agoI can't speak for others, but for me, this is how 20148 changed my world I realized, when I played 2048, that I could have built it too. This was enlightening because I realized we were confined by the limitations we place on ourselves. It changed my view of the world, at least, and hopefully of some more developers like me.