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		WarOnPrivacy on Aug 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCit... Alphaville (circa 2000) forever rules as sim-anarchy's crowning achievement. Without moderation it quickly became saturated with the worst crimes people can come up with. The Alphaville Herald was dedicated to it; the blog continued on for years, after the sim was shut down. This Salon article references the mag https://web.archive.org/web/20040217030353/http://www.salon.... Alphaville is one of my favorite pieces of internet history but it wasn't ever really documented. It's hard to find anything about it now.

burkaman on Aug 4, 2020 [–]

I've never heard of it before, but the Alphaville Herald and all of its archives are still online: http://alphavilleherald.com/archives

WarOnPrivacy on Aug 4, 2020 | [–]

Nice. Thanks!

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