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WorldsAway
WorldsAway is an online graphical "virtual chat" environment in which users designed their own two dimensionally represented avatars. It was one of the first visual virtual worlds.〔 In 1996 it was one of the top 20 most popular forums on Compuserve.
== History ==
WorldsAway was an English version of Fujitsu and LucasArts' ''Habitat'' for the Commodore 64. ''Habitat'' was launched in 1986 and was the first online virtual world. WorldsAway was originally launched in 1995 through CompuServe〔( Remembering 1.x ), Lizard Man, November 3rd, 1998〕 as a free service for members. The world was called Dreamscape and moved to the public Internet in 1997 still under the operation of Fujitsu.
As CompuServe morphed into AOL's "value brand", Fujitsu sought to sell off its product as they were making a loss. Inworlds.com (who later became Avaterra, Inc) stepped up and bought the licensing rights and took over the reins. As of 2011 the Dreamscape is still surviving independently as one of the VZones.com worlds – owned by Stratagem Corporation. Other WorldsAway worlds using the same server software that have been launched during Stratagem times are newHorizone, Seducity, Second Kingdom and Datylus.〔(Stratagem Corporation )〕 The VZones worlds closed in August 2014.
In September 2014, WorldsAway software again surfaced with MetroWorlds' beta world, Eden, which was a free to play beta test while the upcoming new world was being built. In October 2015, Metroworlds opened their doors to the first new world, Metropolis. www.metroworlds.com Many prior members of Dreamscape, newHorizone and Glass City, the prior Korean WorldsAway world, have become members. The members enjoy dressing up their avatars with items that are paid for with daily earned inworld currency, or with cash shop items, called MetroGear. They have come together to meet up with old and new friends for chatting, playing inworld games to win pixel prizes to add to their collections, and decorating private turfs for soon to come contests.
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