Worlds: Aerosmith World
Theme: Pink - Aerosmith
Similar to Active Worlds, Worlds.com is another of the myriad of virtual worlds that popped up in the mid to late 1990's. Unlike Active Worlds, Worlds remains mostly like an archive to the past, with pretty much the main updates to this virtual world having to do with maintaining the servers and making sure that it can work on the latest operating systems.
Aerosmith World is one of the main regions that you can access by the basic set of spaces you can teleport to without needing access to private servers. That said, there is nothing creepy pasta revealed here. It's just the usual cringe you get from Aerosmith in the late 90's. I would gather by the video here (which still works!), 'Pink', off their Nine Lives album, that this space was made to help promote its release back in 1997.
So yeah, SL wasn't the only world in the metaverse that, for a few years, had the eye (and funding) of the entertainment industry before they dropped it for the next big thing. This happened to Worlds 10 years before Second Life had the big push back in 2007. That Worlds is still around 25 years later should give some hope that Second Life could be around to celebrate it's 25th birthday 10 years from now. The moral being that the longevity of the metaverse isn't found in commercialism, but in community.
Note: I have come to consider places like Worlds and Active Worlds as being open virtual worlds. These were the pioneers of virtual spaces on the internet, and among the first to quote Snow Crash, even begin to coin 'metaverse' and web3.0 in trying to explain what they are. Therefore, any group that, in a general sense, speaks of themselves as an open world, open life, virtual world, web3.0, or hypergrid, seems appropriate appropriate groups to add them to. After all, these virtual worlds were very much ahead of the game and developed a lot of the aspects that make up our virtual world experiences even to this day. Not only did they have teleportation to different regions, but to different servers, even without utilizing a hypergate, but simply by teleporting to that server, as long as you had that server's coordinates. If you don't agree with this definition, let me know, and I won't post these in your group.
Active Worlds, does have an 'immigration' system in place, possibly for safety measures, intending to insure that underaged people don't wind up down the rabbit hole of more mature worlds beyond the more general, G to PG worlds they have in their generic list of places to teleport to. Worlds doesn't have such measures, though it's not that easy to get to the creepy pasta private servers without actively looking for them by either finding the people that built those private worlds, or looking for references of these places in obscure areas on the internet. In other worlds, you're likely not to find super creepy stuff without actively seeking it out. There also are moderators that watch the general chat, so, while a few people may slip through the cracks, the community appears to moderate these things. Most anything I've found in both worlds I've explored have been mostly G to PG, with a few cringy stuff, and yet hardly anything compared to what you can find in various moderate and adult grids and regions on SL. Not to say the creepy pasta stuff isn't true, but again, you have to actively look fort it, It's like complaining about seeing a dragon naughty bit on SL when you were searching the furry or fantasy adult sims and regions on SL. If you don't want to see it, don't seek it out.
Worlds: Aerosmith World
Theme: Pink - Aerosmith
Similar to Active Worlds, Worlds.com is another of the myriad of virtual worlds that popped up in the mid to late 1990's. Unlike Active Worlds, Worlds remains mostly like an archive to the past, with pretty much the main updates to this virtual world having to do with maintaining the servers and making sure that it can work on the latest operating systems.
Aerosmith World is one of the main regions that you can access by the basic set of spaces you can teleport to without needing access to private servers. That said, there is nothing creepy pasta revealed here. It's just the usual cringe you get from Aerosmith in the late 90's. I would gather by the video here (which still works!), 'Pink', off their Nine Lives album, that this space was made to help promote its release back in 1997.
So yeah, SL wasn't the only world in the metaverse that, for a few years, had the eye (and funding) of the entertainment industry before they dropped it for the next big thing. This happened to Worlds 10 years before Second Life had the big push back in 2007. That Worlds is still around 25 years later should give some hope that Second Life could be around to celebrate it's 25th birthday 10 years from now. The moral being that the longevity of the metaverse isn't found in commercialism, but in community.
Note: I have come to consider places like Worlds and Active Worlds as being open virtual worlds. These were the pioneers of virtual spaces on the internet, and among the first to quote Snow Crash, even begin to coin 'metaverse' and web3.0 in trying to explain what they are. Therefore, any group that, in a general sense, speaks of themselves as an open world, open life, virtual world, web3.0, or hypergrid, seems appropriate appropriate groups to add them to. After all, these virtual worlds were very much ahead of the game and developed a lot of the aspects that make up our virtual world experiences even to this day. Not only did they have teleportation to different regions, but to different servers, even without utilizing a hypergate, but simply by teleporting to that server, as long as you had that server's coordinates. If you don't agree with this definition, let me know, and I won't post these in your group.
Active Worlds, does have an 'immigration' system in place, possibly for safety measures, intending to insure that underaged people don't wind up down the rabbit hole of more mature worlds beyond the more general, G to PG worlds they have in their generic list of places to teleport to. Worlds doesn't have such measures, though it's not that easy to get to the creepy pasta private servers without actively looking for them by either finding the people that built those private worlds, or looking for references of these places in obscure areas on the internet. In other worlds, you're likely not to find super creepy stuff without actively seeking it out. There also are moderators that watch the general chat, so, while a few people may slip through the cracks, the community appears to moderate these things. Most anything I've found in both worlds I've explored have been mostly G to PG, with a few cringy stuff, and yet hardly anything compared to what you can find in various moderate and adult grids and regions on SL. Not to say the creepy pasta stuff isn't true, but again, you have to actively look fort it, It's like complaining about seeing a dragon naughty bit on SL when you were searching the furry or fantasy adult sims and regions on SL. If you don't want to see it, don't seek it out.