Well, if this was an attempt to get me to share stuff on Google+, it succeeded.
Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg
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"I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game" I remember when Dune 2 came out - the father of all RTS games.
That I remembered - the major upgrade and concept it was over the previous dune 1. Then the warcraft series, followed by Command and conquer and then Starcraft, which set the gold standard. AoE came next - after that it just becomes a blur of different RTS types which were competing for top billing.
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#103Googlers have too much time on their hands.
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Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)
Yeah, the 'zerg' meme originates from Starcraft. It's been commonly used (often pejoratively) in gaming circles to describe situations in which superior numbers dictated the outcome of an encounter. On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29. Edit : I was kind of surprised to see this meme explicitly explained. I've always thou…
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> On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29. Do you remember a time before Google? Google was started the same year as Starcraft was released - 1998. (Weirdly Armageddon and Deep Impact were released in 1998) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_film ) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998 )
I remember Lycos, Altavista, Excite, Infoseek and Yahoo as being the search engines I used throughout middle school. I don't think I began using Google until 99 or so. However, I also remember using BBS systems. TradeWars 2002, anyone?
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#106Well, if this was an attempt to get me to share stuff on Google+, it succeeded.
If someone shares a link to a public Facebook post, do you consider it an attempt to get you to share stuff on Facebook? I find it odd that you assume someone sharing something on Google+ is an attempt to get you to use Google+ rather than an attempt to share the content with you.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)
remember Starcraft? I play it all the time. What's to remember? My home machine isn't set up for games and I own SC2 but it doesn't run well - and I enjoy the original more anyway.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game" I remember when Dune 2 came out - the father of all RTS games.
That I remembered - the major upgrade and concept it was over the previous dune 1. Then the warcraft series, followed by Command and conquer and then Starcraft, which set the gold standard. AoE came next - after that it just becomes a blur of different RTS types which were competing for top billing.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
If someone shares a link to a public Facebook post, do you consider it an attempt to get you to share stuff on Facebook? I find it odd that you assume someone sharing something on Google+ is an attempt to get you to use Google+ rather than an attempt to share the content with you.
I believe he's talking about the fact that, at the end of the Zerg Rush game, Google prompts you to share your score on Google+.