Array.character_name
April 18th, 2005
Looks like there are still some vestiges of GNE (Game Neverending, Ludicorp’s original product, since discontinued to focus on Flickr) inside the Flickr engine. I always suspected it (some of the URLs end in .gne) but now I have proof, thanks to the most excellent Rod:
Subject: [Flickr] Array.character_name has given you a Pro Account!
It’s somehow very cool to me (since I have had networked multiplayer environments on the brain since high school) knowing that, somewhere deep inside Flickr, I am a character in a game.