Subj : Re: Activeworlds?
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : Nodoka Hanamura
Date : Sun Mar 21 2021 12:00:45

On 15 Mar 2021, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
 
 Me> On 15 Mar 2021, Nodoka Hanamura said the following...
 Me>  
 Me>  NH> A bit of a off the cuff question, but anyone remember or heard of
 Me>  NH> Activeworlds? I mentioned it on my own BBS to try and stir up
 Me>  NH> conversationthere but since NCBBS tends to be quiet as a dormouse
 Me>  NH> outside of the echos,It got no response. It was a 3D virtual world th
 Me>  NH> started out around '96(Same year I was born, actually). Anyone ever b
 Me>  NH> or heard of it?
 Me> 
 Me> I never heard of that game, but I just searched online and found some
 Me> screen shots on it, looks vaguely like 2nd life?
 Me> 
 Me> Have you played it much? What is it like compared to other similar 
 Me> applications?
 Me> 

It's a VWMMO (Virtual World MMO) that actually preceeded Second Life by about
6-7 years, having launched around the Mid-90s. It's a treasure trove of
cultural value about the early and rennaissance days of the internet
(mid/late 90s to at the latest, 2010). I highly recommend if you've got down
time to sign up just to explore around.

I used to play it for years before I joined Second Life (Which ironically
enough, ActiveWorlds was one of Philip Rosedale's (Founder of Linden Lab,
creator of Second Life) inspirations for SL. AW is quite dated, compared even
to Second Life, though AW is more simple and easier to grasp for building and
scripting things in world, using a basic markup language to program objects as
opposed to having to learn what amounts to Linden Lab-flavored C++.

Born too late to experience the scene.
Born just in time to see it come back.
Nodoka Hanamura - NeoCincinnati BBS SYSOP - neocinci.bbs.io

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