Subj : Re: Activeworlds?
To   : Starstorm
From : Nodoka Hanamura
Date : Sun Mar 21 2021 12:06:18

On 17 Mar 2021, Starstorm said the following...
 
 St> On 15 Mar 2021, Nodoka Hanamura said the following...
 St> 
 St>  NH> A bit of a off the cuff question, but anyone remember or heard of
 St>  NH> Activeworlds? I mentioned it on my own BBS to try and stir up
 St>  NH> conversation there but since NCBBS tends to be quiet as a dormouse
 St>  NH> outside of the echos, It got no response. It was a 3D virtual world t
 St>  NH> started out around '96 (Same year I was born, actually). Anyone ever
 St>  NH> been or heard of it?
 St>  NH> 
 St> Funny you bring it up, I was just thinking of Worlds Chat the other day,
 St> which was 1995. usually when this stuff comes to mind, I often think of
 St> both.
 St> 
 St> I thought Worlds Chat was so flipping cool. I kinda miss it.
 St> 

Worlds.com actually is still around, though for one particular reason - the
owner of Worlds.com has been patent trolling for years using the original
Virtual World to rake in lawsuit settlements and royalties from Linden Lab,
ActiveWorlds.. and god knows how many other companies over the years. The
patent was due to expire recently but I think that parasite renewed it.

Whereas Activeworlds... I have no idea. User concurrency has taken a shit on
itself in recent years and given how many people claim Second Life is dead, I
could take them through AW and they'd soon realize that Second Life looks
like a packed rave pre-corona compared to AW. Though Activeworlds does hold
significant value as the world's first virtual world to introduce
collaborative building and some of the concepts we'd later see in Second Life
and other successors to AW, and even successors of those platforms like
Sinespace and the sort.

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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