Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

When did "sandbox" come to prominence as a piece of jargon?

+7
−0

When did "sandbox" become a popular term in rpg discourse?

It has been suggested to me that it came from computer games to roleplaying. Was this the case and when did this happen?

This thread at Enworld from 2007 uses the term and assumes familiarity.

This thread uses different terminology, though sandbox is mentioned once in post number 42.

I can't make the rpg.net search engine look for old posts except by very tedious manual navigation, but maybe someone figures out what the parameter in for example this url means and does it: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?search/2363567/&q=sandbox&c[older_than]=1597680120&o=date

The old Wizards of the coast forums are by now long gone, but would have been a valuable source. Maybe Dragonsfoot has something, too?

History
Why does this post require moderator attention?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

0 comment threads

1 answer

+0
−2

It may date back as far as the iPhone (2007)

ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12055990/what-is-sandbox-in-ios-can-i-transfer-data-between-one-app-to-another-app

It was in the context of protecting the iPhone from user applications by "sandboxing" them inside a virtual machine that I first heard the term.

History
Why does this post require moderator attention?
You might want to add some details to your flag.

1 comment thread

Connection to roleplaying use? (2 comments)

Sign up to answer this question »