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Jun 28, 2005, 5:50am

Happy birthday to you... happy birthday to you... happy birthday ALPHAWORLD!

Yes... 10 years ago on this date was when things began for the little
program Alphaworld, that eventually became Activeworlds. According to Mauz'
history page, June 28th was the day things started for the public. This has
been the date that the AW Community has been using for past celebrations.

With Festival and Reunion still a month away, we are planning a little get
together tonight at 12 AM VRT (7 PM PST) at... where else but the AW GZ!
Bring your old... err... vintage... era Cy avatar and share your history
with the world, the program, the experience... whatever comes to mind! The
key to the history of AW are the experiences of the people who fill it!

-Taunt

Jun 28, 2005, 12:57pm

Tonight? Bit late on the planning =O

Happy 10th Birthday AW =O

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Jun 28, 2005, 2:38pm

Happy Birthday AW! Here is a little History lesson from Wikipedia.com :

Active Worlds was inspired by the book Snow Crash written by Neal
Stephenson. In 1994, Ron Britvich (Protagonist) created WebWorld which was
the first 2.5D world where 10,000's could chat, build and travel in.
WebWorld operated on the Peregrine Systems, owned by Knowledge Adventure
Worlds (KAW). KAW, along with Kinetic Effects Research Inc (later Credo
Interactive), began development on AW. On February 1995, KAW renamed to
Worlds Inc.
On June 28, 1995, AW was officially launched. A couple months later, Circle
of Fire (CoF) was formed by Richard F. Noll. CoF was a small group of
friends and family who worked on large projects in AW, such as games.

You can read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds

-Kenneth

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Jun 28, 2005, 2:46pm

I think it's pretty funny and cool that AW came out BEFORE Windows 95.
Windows 3.11 wasn't even geared to the Internet and you needed a special
login program to get online. LOL

-Kenneth


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Jun 28, 2005, 3:04pm

Well... myself and several AWCC community leaders came together a few months
ago to start planning. It was eventually decided just to do it with the
reunion coming up, as that was what AWHS was hard at work on (And AWHS is
the primary group you want for any historic landmark). With that decided,
it sorta went unnoticed as to the real date. However, that date is today
and we might as well do something ;) (In addition to all the bigger events
coming up)

-Taunt


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Jun 28, 2005, 3:23pm

Happy 10th AWI .... And manyyyyyyy moreeeeee:)))) . I came in when COF was
starting Active Worlds:)))))... I remember the gateway entrance as a spaceship
and we all a bunch of aliens looking around... Was incredibleeeeeee;))))

[View Quote] > I think it's pretty funny and cool that AW came out BEFORE Windows 95.
> Windows 3.11 wasn't even geared to the Internet and you needed a special
> login program to get online. LOL
>
> -Kenneth
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Jun 28, 2005, 11:19pm

Happy b-day AW :D
Man I can't believe there was no universe message acknowledging this rare
accomplishment o_O

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Jun 29, 2005, 4:22am

Wow that was a ton of fun ^_^
I took some pictures, you can check them out here:
http://www.swcity.net/pics/aw10/

Check out this one though: http://www.swcity.net/pics/aw10/aw10_2.jpg
It's the community photo of AW ^_^

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Jun 29, 2005, 12:31pm

Ty, had to leave half an hour before the party X_X

Why does onilink's name lack the comic balloon thing? I know he doesnt
say anything but his name is still meant to have the balloon thing X_X

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Jun 29, 2005, 12:46pm

Hmm, i don't mean to sound like a bastard, but it seems like you turned
it into a SWCity birthday bash >_<

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Jun 29, 2005, 4:05pm

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Jun 29, 2005, 6:21pm

Hey man we were just partying it up with some games we had readily
available, sorry you felt that way o_O


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Jun 29, 2005, 8:16pm

No pictures from the actual party?!? >_<

-Taunt

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Jun 29, 2005, 9:52pm

I had a great time last night at AW GZ as well. Lots of old memories talked
about there : ) Great pics, Commit! Here's one I took, heh:
http://www.vrdwellers.com/scrnshots/aw10year01.jpg


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Jun 29, 2005, 10:28pm

Should have done a road trip of AW you =P
Hours of getting from one edge to the other
Wait, not hours, days O_O

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Jun 30, 2005, 3:09am

Looks like you had a great turnout!! Nice work Taun!!! :)

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