How FreeCell gave rise to online crowdsourcing

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How FreeCell gave rise to online crowdsourcing

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Dave Ring is a hard man to find. Given that he launched one of the earliest crowdsourced internet projects—if not the first—one would expect Ring to be something of an online superstar. He was using group power before Huffington had a Post, back when Amazon was just a river.

But when you Google his name—the smell test of millennial relevancy—our Dave is buried beneath Dave Ring the stand-up comedian, Dave Ring the editorial consultant, and Dave Ring the mentally disabled televangelist. Perhaps the web has obscured Dave Ring the internet revolutionary because his project was, from the most straightforward perspective, a bust. In the summer of ’94, Ring led 110 online comrades to beat a video game called FreeCell. They lost.
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So who's going to be playing FreeCell sometime today?
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Considering it - ;-)
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Who volunteers to test that?

Why in the world do you need to cheat? FreeCell is the easiest card game on Windows to win at.
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