Table of Contents
44 relations: Alternate reality game, Chinese language, Creepypasta, Croquet Project, CyberTown, Danish language, English language, Finnish language, French language, German language, Habitat (video game), Hungarian language, Instant messaging, Italian language, Japanese language, Korean language, Linux, MacOS, Metaverse, Microsoft Windows, Neal Stephenson, Newburyport, Massachusetts, Non-player character, Peregrine Systems, Portuguese language, Reddit, RenderWare, Russian language, Second Life, Skunkworks project, Snow Crash, Spanish language, Swedish language, The Thirteenth Floor, Twitch (service), Vinesauce, Virtual world, Voice chat in online gaming, Web browser, Windows 8.1, Wine (software), Worlds.com, YouTube, 2.5D.
Alternate reality game
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Creepypasta
A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet.
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Croquet Project
The Croquet Project is a software project that was intended to promote the continued development of the Croquet open-source software development kit to create and deliver collaborative multi-user online applications. Active Worlds and Croquet Project are virtual world communities.
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CyberTown
CyberTown (CT) (formerly Colony City) was an online virtual world. Active Worlds and CyberTown are virtual world communities.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Habitat (video game)
Habitat is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by LucasArts. Active Worlds and Habitat (video game) are virtual world communities.
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Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Metaverse
The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. Active Worlds and metaverse are virtual world communities.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston.
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Non-player character
A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.
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Peregrine Systems
Peregrine Systems, Inc. was an enterprise software company, founded in 1981, that sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL-based IT service management software.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.
RenderWare
RenderWare is a video game engine developed by British game developer Criterion Software.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Second Life
Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world. Active Worlds and Second Life are active massively multiplayer online games, massively multiplayer online games and virtual world communities.
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Skunkworks project
A skunkworks project is a project developed by a relatively small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project, often with a very large degree of autonomy, primarily for the sake of radical innovation.
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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The Thirteenth Floor
The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science fiction neo-noir film written and directed by Josef Rusnak, and produced by Roland Emmerich through his Centropolis Entertainment company.
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Twitch (service)
Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.
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Vinesauce
Vinesauce is a collective of online content creators founded in 2010.
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Virtual world
A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others. Active Worlds and virtual world are virtual world communities.
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Voice chat in online gaming
Voice chat is telecommunication via voice over IP (VoIP) technologies—especially when those technologies are used as intercoms among players in multiplayer online games.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
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Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Wine (software)
Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
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Worlds.com
Worlds.com, or Worlds Chat is an online chat program launched by Worlds Inc in April 1995. Worlds.com was the first program made available for the general public to download from Worlds Inc's website for free. Active Worlds and Worlds.com are virtual world communities.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
2.5D
2.5D (basic pronunciation two-and-a-half dimensional) perspective refers to gameplay or movement in a video game or virtual reality environment that is restricted to a two-dimensional (2D) plane with little or no access to a third dimension in a space that otherwise appears to be three-dimensional and is often simulated and rendered in a 3D digital environment.
References
Also known as ActiveWorlds, Activeworlds Inc., Aworld, Circle of Fire Studios, Cybernet Worlds.