On the adult appeal of dodgeball

Date:	August 30, 2005 / year-entry #246
Tags:	other
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050830-13/?p=34373
Comments:	7
Summary:	NPR's Only a Game recently covered the rise of adult dodgeball. At MSN's tenth birthday party last week, there was a wide variety of entertainment options, the highlight of which appeared to be an organized dodgeball tournament. It was very well attended and didn't have the ego-damaging overtones you got from elementary school. A good...

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Ben Watson says:

August 30, 2005 at 12:01 pm

Do you mean the current members of the Windows 95 team, or the MS employees who are still around who worked on Windows 95?

I know Windows 95 is well past its end of life, but I wonder if there are still people who work on these old OSes in any capacity?

Matt says:

August 30, 2005 at 12:02 pm

Dodgeball is really fun. There’s an adult dodgeball tournament near Boston that I’ve wanted to play in but can’t due to school. However, at my school (Rochester Institute of Technology), one of the frats holds an annual dodgeball tournament. Practically the entire campus shows up and it goes on the whole day. All proceeds (which ends up being quite a lot of money) are donated to a charity.

Travis Owens says:

August 30, 2005 at 12:28 pm

Did MSN launch back in 95/96? I had no idea it was that old.

Ry Jones says:

August 30, 2005 at 1:23 pm

I was at this party, and the dodgeball tourney was clearly the central draw.

I was shocked (shocked!) at the number of black "windows 95 product team" t-shirts I saw.

Sean says:

August 30, 2005 at 1:29 pm

Originally MSN was meant to be a closed service provider, like old AOL before it went internet.

It happened at the same time as the w95 launch, as the new OS was used to launch the program that ran the new msn. Eventually MSN gave up being an old-fashioned provider and became and ordinary ISP.

Beavis says:

August 30, 2005 at 2:30 pm

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos is a huge dodgeball fan, so he had a dedicated dodgeball court put into the parking lot. If I recall correctly, the day it opened, someone broke an ankle.

Joe says:

September 1, 2005 at 2:18 am

You just have to watch "Dodgeball – A True Underdog Story" then. As crazy as it can get.