Editing Simulation (section)

===Christmas===
{{Further|NORAD Tracks Santa|Google Santa Tracker|emailSanta.com}}
Several Christmas-themed simulations exist, many of which are centred around [[Santa Claus]]. An example of these simulations are websites which claim to allow the user to track Santa Claus. Due to the fact that Santa is a [[legend]]ary character and not a real, living person, it is impossible to provide actual information on his location, and services such as [[NORAD Tracks Santa]] and the [[Google Santa Tracker]] (the former of which claims to use [[radar]] and other technologies to track Santa)<ref>{{cite web|last=Grush|first=Loren|date=24 December 2016|title=The technologies NORAD is 'using' to track Santa Claus today|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/24/14044412/norad-santa-tracker-christmas-eve-sbirs-satellites-jets-radar|access-date=14 November 2020|website=The Verge|language=en}}</ref> display fake, predetermined location information to users. Another example of these simulations are websites that claim to allow the user to email or send messages to Santa Claus. Websites such as [[emailSanta.com]] or Santa's former page on the now-defunct [[Windows Live Spaces]] by [[Microsoft]] use automated [[Computer program|programs]] or scripts to generate personalized replies claimed to be from Santa himself based on user input.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ribeiro|first=Ricky|date=19 December 2012|title=EmailSanta.com: How Santa Claus Went Digital|url=https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2012/12/emailsantacom-how-santa-claus-went-digital|access-date=19 July 2020|website=BizTech Magazine|language=en|quote="It now offers kids and parents personalized messages from Santa, which run from an ASP script that Kerr built himself."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Vnuk|first=Helen|date=7 December 2017|title=Email Santa and get a reply: the website making my kids believe.|url=https://www.mamamia.com.au/email-santa-and-get-a-reply/|access-date=19 July 2020|website=MamaMia.com.au/|language=en|quote="The one thing that's convinced my daughter, more than anything else, that Santa is real is a website, emailSanta.com."}}</ref><ref name="Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa, by John Fontana, 4 Dec 20072">{{cite web|title=Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa, by John Fontana, 4 Dec 2007|url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/120407-microsoft-santa-bot.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013161007/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/120407-microsoft-santa-bot.html|archive-date=13 October 2012|access-date=9 December 2010|publisher=Network World}}</ref><ref name="For a Jolly Good Time, Chat With Santa on Windows Live Messenger, 13 Dec 20062">{{cite web|title=For a Jolly Good Time, Chat With Santa on Windows Live Messenger, 13 Dec 2006|url=https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/dec06/12-13SantaIMPR.mspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024145241/https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/dec06/12-13SantaIMPR.mspx|archive-date=24 October 2007|access-date=9 December 2010|publisher=Microsoft}}</ref>