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WhyteRaven74
2010-03-13 6:02:09 PM  
Active Worlds is still around? Holy crap.
 
WhyteRaven74
2010-03-13 6:03:30 PM  
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Anyone else ever use worlds chat way back when?
 
SilentStrider
2010-03-13 6:16:05 PM  
you can have my mechano-hog when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2010-03-13 6:49:47 PM  

WhyteRaven74: Anyone else ever use worlds chat way back when?


My avatar was a dog that peed as a special trick.

/Mom, stop picking the phone up. I'm trying to use the internet.
 
Lehk
2010-03-13 6:50:30 PM  
i remember playing AW in all it's custom midi music glory back in the day. some of the areas people made were really good, then years later i saw second life and was appalled at how bad everything but the fursuits and yiff beds were, and more appalled that said suits and beds existed in the first place.
 
TheHopeDiamond
2010-03-13 7:05:55 PM  
I remember reading about Asheron's Call 2 going offline, and thinking how creepy it must have been for the players.

Now I play World of Warcraft, and I know how creepy it must have been for them.
 
Obnox
2010-03-13 7:06:35 PM  

WhyteRaven74: Active Worlds is still around? Holy crap.


Yeah. That's rather surprising. I wonder if the glass palace I built on Mars is still there.
 
Hyper Anthony
2010-03-13 7:21:42 PM  

WhyteRaven74: Active Worlds is still around? Holy crap.


The company focuses most of its attention on white-label products these days, but the original worlds are still in their universe and most everything is still alive and kickin'.

I've got stuff from years back that's still around.
 
dervish16108
2010-03-13 7:26:02 PM  
I've never heard of Active Worlds. It sounds like one of those fake MMOs they show one time on shows like Law and Order SVU.
 
Shrugging Atlas
2010-03-13 7:37:38 PM  
Should my geek pride be wounded for not having heard of either?
 
Barakku
2010-03-13 7:39:27 PM  

RogermcAllen: /Mom, stop picking the phone up. I'm trying to use the internet.


The horror...the horror
 
ramblinwreck
2010-03-13 7:50:25 PM  

TheHopeDiamond: I remember reading about Asheron's Call 2 going offline, and thinking how creepy it must have been for the players.

Now I play World of Warcraft, and I know how creepy it must have been for them.


I don't know if "weird" is the world to describe it. I was pretty depressed when the ImagiNation Network (aka, the Sierra Network) shut down in 1996. I then switched to The Realm, then to EQ in 1999. None of the new MMORPGs have been able to fill the void created by the shut-down of INN... :(
 
Sgeo
2010-03-13 7:53:01 PM  

WhyteRaven74: Anyone else ever use worlds chat way back when?


Worlds Chat exists independently from AW these days. I don't think there's been innovative stuff in Worlds for years now, but it still has mirrors and non-euclidean(?) spaces, and AW only has crappy mirrors [and no non-euclidean], and SL has none of that.
 
WhyteRaven74
2010-03-13 8:00:06 PM  
RogermcAllen: Mom, stop picking the phone up. I'm trying to use the internet.

*snort* ahh that brings back some memories
 
WhyteRaven74
2010-03-13 8:02:27 PM  
Hyper Anthony: I've got stuff from years back that's still around.

I built some stuff there, like oh, 12 years ago.

Shrugging Atlas: Should my geek pride be wounded for not having heard of either?

Um yes ;)

Sgeo: Worlds Chat exists independently from AW these days.

I know about that. That I remember. I'm not sure how I should feel for remembering though.

My favorite thing on Worlds Chat was the total lack of rhyme or reason to the avatars, a dog, a cartoon dominatrixy figure, a floating disembodied head etc.
 
Resin33
2010-03-13 8:08:58 PM  
Didn't buy my mechanohog on credit, so I'm not concerned.
 
Sgeo
2010-03-13 8:54:36 PM  

WhyteRaven74: Hyper Anthony: I've got stuff from years back that's still around.

I built some stuff there, like oh, 12 years ago.

Shrugging Atlas: Should my geek pride be wounded for not having heard of either?

Um yes ;)

Sgeo: Worlds Chat exists independently from AW these days.

I know about that. That I remember. I'm not sure how I should feel for remembering though.

My favorite thing on Worlds Chat was the total lack of rhyme or reason to the avatars, a dog, a cartoon dominatrixy figure, a floating disembodied head etc.


You realize Worlds Chat is still around? I joined in 2001, but haven't been on in a while. SirGemini gave me a VIP since I was around way back when. Didn't really renew it though. Were you around for actual 3d avatars? [those are VIP only]. Were you around when "VIP" became a term? [It means paying customer]
 
Racht
2010-03-13 8:58:42 PM  

Shrugging Atlas: Should my geek pride be wounded for not having heard of either?


I hope not. I've been playing MMOs regularly since 99 (AC, SB, FFXI, WoW) and have never heard of either of these.

Also: you'll never take my Amani War Bear.
 
Hyper Anthony
2010-03-13 9:03:53 PM  
AW was most popular from the late 90's til '02 and it's fallen from glory since then.

/Prairie Chicken got repo'd
// :(
 
Arn_Dee
2010-03-13 9:27:52 PM  
You will never take my mechanohog or time lost proto drake :(
 
CrazyCurt
2010-03-13 9:28:24 PM  
Touch my Paladin's and Druid's mounts and i will hunt you throughout Azeroth.

/ way too old to be a geeky WoW player, but heck, I did level two 80s, and the Druid is one scary lady.

// For the Horde!
 
SilentStrider
2010-03-13 9:33:11 PM  
CrazyCurt: // For the Horde!

lok'tar ogar
 
UNAUTHORIZED FINGER
2010-03-13 9:37:27 PM  
I started with AW in 1996. It used to be very fun, with Wild West rules. It was free, and the owners promised it would ALWAYS be free. I even went to Europe to visit people I met in AW. Then they sold out, and started charging $5.00 a month for citizenship rights (no deletion of property, upgrades of browser abilities). Along with fees came rules. Ridiculous rules. It's a very polite society. Also very unpopulated. There used to be 150-200 people at Ground Zero at any given time. Now, they're lucky to have 10-15. I'm sad for what AW decided to become. It used to be an awesome program.
 
TheHopeDiamond
2010-03-14 12:08:22 AM  
None shall take my trusty Charger!

/For the Crusade!
 
WhyteRaven74
2010-03-14 12:11:49 AM  
Sgeo: You realize Worlds Chat is still around? I joined in 2001

Yeah I do, and I was on it in like 96 to 98.
 
jessicat
2010-03-14 4:15:12 AM  
Nobody can catch my Cenarion War Hippogryph!

He runs like a wienie dog, it's hilarious.
 
CraicBaby [OhFark]
2010-03-14 4:29:49 AM  
Sgeo: Worlds Chat exists independently from AW these days.

I think I've been on TF too long. Every time someone uses the abbreviation AW, I automatically think they're talking about Attention Whores.

Oh, and no one can take my Brewfest Ram, my Violet Proto-drake or my Blue Drake.

/78 mounts so far
//broke-ass engineer saving up for Mechano-hog parts
 
blackheart666
2010-03-14 5:03:09 AM  

CrazyCurt: Touch my Paladin's and Druid's mounts and i will hunt you throughout Azeroth.

/ way too old to be a geeky WoW player, but heck, I did level two 80s, and the Druid is one scary lady.

// For the Horde!


Only 2? Lightweight... I have 7 80's... And 3 more 70's... Even my bank alt is level 70....
 
dragyne
2010-03-14 9:14:19 AM  
Is this the what rare mount I have thread?

/my rusted protodrake
//my cold dead fingers
 
Descartes
2010-03-14 10:28:27 AM  
Sunreaver Dragonhawk


/you know... cold, dead, etc
 
brawberrys
2010-03-14 2:37:55 PM  
Never really get the attraction of second life and these kinda things... iv i cant shoot people that miss me off in an mmo i might as well meet people in rl.

/protodrake (because old skools the way to go)
 
KhamanV
2010-03-14 3:31:42 PM  

Arn_Dee: You will never take my mechanohog or time lost proto drake :(


You found the time lost? You lucky cocksucker.

/got rich off the herbs I plucked looking for that farker.
//never did catch the sumbiatch.
///Vyragosa kills = 6.
 
God-is-a-Taco
2010-03-14 11:00:52 PM  
Hmmm was that the one MTV promoted for a bit back in the mid 90's or a different "virtual reality" program? Now that I think about it I doubt it was, but it sounds really familiar.
Also, what happened to those virtual reality web addresses? I was only like 8 so I don't fully remember but I do recall thinking how cool it was that they didn't use the "http:\\" at the beginning that everything else did. VR might have been in there somewhere, but I can't picture it.


Shrugging Atlas: Should my geek pride be wounded for not having heard of either?


Yes. It'd be like being a car fanatic and not knowing what the first cars were.
 
Qaiwolf
2010-03-15 7:25:49 AM  
I've never heard of those either. I was always in Dragonrealms around that time period.

/highfives to Khaman
//Kywolf
 
bearblue
2010-03-15 10:44:26 AM  
I check in AW every few months; hang around for days, etc, when I think of it. I enjoy it when I'm there, but usually end up getting busy and obsessed by other things. Things built on Mars or Alpha are still there, but they've updated portals and locations to places that are a bit shinier and fancier. Still like the original Mars portal best though. :)
 
StinkyFiddlewinks
2010-03-15 12:05:37 PM  
Trippy seeing it here


-Martn
 
Hyper Anthony
2010-03-15 1:01:59 PM  
Well looky there at all of these Farkers
 
KhamanV
2010-03-15 6:36:07 PM  

Qaiwolf: I've never heard of those either. I was always in Dragonrealms around that time period.

/highfives to Khaman
//Kywolf


Holy shiat.

/yes, I do remember that name
 
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