I was in NYC on Wednesday, attending part of DevCon5, a two-day conference devoted to the magical HTML5 browser standard.
As I was staring at a Pac-Man app during ‘The Power of Canvas” session— actually the largest Pac-Man mazes in the world crafted completely in HTML5— my mind wandered back to the 1980s.
You know that time when people went to special arcades to play videos games, like Pac-Man, and returned home to get the news or watch a movie on their TV sets.
If you wanted an interactive graphical experience, you essentially rented time on an appliance that connected together cathode ray tube, CPU, and memory.Continue reading