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James Halliday's Impact On The World
Halliday, James Donovan- 67, sadly logged out of life today ~ January 2039. James Halliday was born on June 12, 1972, in Middleton, Ohio. He was extremely intelligent, but also extremely unsocial. He mainly dedicated his life to computers, comic books, sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, and videogames. During his lifetime, he greatly impacted the effect video games had on the world. Halliday was the creator of the very popular, worldwide, life changing game, the OASIS. The OASIS allows people to enter into a virtual reality and have the ability to be whoever they want to be, travel limitlessly (as long as the person has the money), make long lasting friends without ever meeting them, and do a huge number of other things. The OASIS affected

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