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Wendy Sue Noah Interview Just in time for the holidays is a lovely interview I conducted recently with Wendy Sue Noah, who was a Business Development Consultant at Fujitsu Software Corporation working on WorldsAway. Wendy lat...

My interview with Wendy Sue Noah formerly of Fujitsu/Avaterra who worked on WorldsAway is now available for everyone.

We chatted about Silicon Valley in the mid 90's, working at match.com as a startup. Bringing the online dating sphere to WorldsAway and more.

renoproject.org/wendy-sue-no...

David Andrews interview now available to all As mentioned a couple of weeks ago when we dropped the David Andrews interview, it'd be made free to everyone after the initial early access period. You can read it here right now. If you enjoyed th...

The interview with David Andrews, former owner of VZones and CEO of Avaterra.com is now available to everyone.

It covers topics like virtual worlds in the middle of the dot com boom, Japanese business culture and insight into unique times.

renoproject.org/david-andrew...

#VirtualWorlds #MMO

David Andrews Interview If you ever spent time in WorldsAway or VZones from 1999 through to 2006, you may have heard the name David Andrews. Originally brought in to take over the reins of the WorldsAway Products and Servic...

Just dropped an interview with David Andrews, former VP of the WorldsAway group at Fujitsu, later CEO of Avaterra.com / VZones.

Check out the article over at renoproject.org/david-andrew...

#WorldsAway #Fujitsu #VirtualWorlds #MMO #VZones #metaverse

こんにちは、私のウェブサイト（https://renoproject.org）で「J-チャット」と「WorldsAway」について書いています。WorldsAwayは1995年8月に最初にリリースされ、J-Chatの前身であるHabitat IIは1996年3月にリリースされました。

「J-チャット」で過ごしたことはありますか？ いつかそれについてお話しできたら嬉しいです。

WorldsAway - May 1995 rolling demo YouTube video by StuBlad

Check out this footage of WorldsAway from May 1995 taken from a demo created to drum up hype before the beta began:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q4...

#WorldsAway #VirtualWorlds #MMO #retro #archive #gaming

I miss chat rooms.

A screenshot of the WorldsAway world known as the Dreamscape circa 1996. Created and operated by Fujitsu via CompuServe. This scene depicts 5 avatars speaking by a fountain wearing various colorful clothing and unique heads. A ghost can be seen observing the region in the sky and a teleporter device can be seen in the background.

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Habitat and Caribe footage re-uploaded If you've ever looked for footage of Habitat or Club Caribe on YouTube, you've almost certainly ran into the following videos recorded by Keith Elkin back in May 1988 for Habitat and Summer 1989 for t...

Doing a little bit of organizing. Got all of the Lucasfilm's Habitat and Club Caribe footage in one place now, as well as uploaded an hour and a half of never-before-seen Caribe beta footage.

Read more about it after the jump.

renoproject.org/habitat-and-...

#VirtualWorlds #GamePreservation #C64

I don't think people understand what a novel idea this was back in the 80's. It was earth shattering.

The price was insane, but the pioneering work that happened with Habitat spawned so many different things that we still enjoy to this day.

You can play Habitat today over at neohabitat.org

Club Caribe server source code found When Lucasfilm's Habitat was first made open source, an event was held in September 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA. This was a hackathon primarily held to resurrect...

I discovered source code for the Club Caribe virtual world server, a modified version of Lucasfilm's Habitat on the C64 which ran on Quantum Link (AOL) back in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

I've uploaded it to GitHub and written about it here:
renoproject.org/club-caribe-...

#VirtualWorlds

Cheers James!

Thank you so much! Nice to see you on here.

thank you :)

A scene from the WorldsAway virtual world known as VZConnections. Taken sometime circa late 1999 or early 2000. Avatars gather in a park to play bingo with each other for prizes and ingame currency known as tokens.

A scene from the WorldsAway virtual world known as VZConnections. Taken sometime circa late 1999 or early 2000.

Avatars gather in a park to play bingo with each other for prizes and ingame currency known as tokens.

WA had a plugin API that allowed external developers to create games for the world.

If anyone knows of any virtual world, game preservation or gaming starter packs that this account could be added to, please DM me or just add me.

I'm going to be posting regular content on here moving forward.

#starterpacks #retro #virtualworlds #videogamepreservation #archive #gaming

Reno Project Everything about virtual worlds from the 1980's and 1990's, including Lucasfilm's Habitat, WorldsAway and beyond. See where the metaverse began.

Hey everyone, I ( @stublad.bsky.social ) created this account for my website, renoproject.org

I document the history of a subsection of virtual worlds from the 1980's thru to the 2000's, beginning with Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first ever graphical virtual world (and proto MMO)

Check it out!