April 2023
Beginner
187 pages
5h 46m
English
The Palace was one of the first multiplayer real-time virtual worlds, made up of avatars and rooms within graphical chat room servers, called Palaces. Bumgardner created the software in 1991 when he was working for Time Warner Interactive. Within the Palace, avatars could navigate the rooms, chat to each other, create props, and even follow links to other decentralized Palace servers. In 1997, users began clothing their avatars like paper dolls. With these “Dollz” and crowded servers ...