Every day, people around the globe head to the same place to meet friends, test their mettle, and have fun. And it’s a place that doesn’t even exist.
World of Warcraft’s virtual realm boasts more people than Sweden. It earns $2 billion annually in subscriptions, outperforming many small nations. And this extraordinarily compelling, popular, profitable world is entirely a creation of software code.
This video appears in CHM’s exhibit “Make Software: Change the World!” Learn more: https://www.computerhistory.org/makesoftware/exhibit/world-of-warcraft/.
