Timeline

The plan for this page is to have a bullet point list of all major events that occurred in the timeline from Habitat until the present day. These will be presented in chronological order and wherever possible, links and citations will be given.

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1985

• Habitat begins.

1986

• Habitat development.

1987

• Habitat alpha test occurs.

1988

• Habitat alpha ends.

1989

• Club Caribe is released.
• Fujitsu Habitat monitor test begins.

1990

• Fujitsu Habitat is officially released.

1993

• Development of WorldsAway begins.

1994

• Club Caribe closes.

1995

• WorldsAway’s Dreamscape launches on CompuServe.

1996

• Habitat II is released in Japan on Windows, Mac and the Sega Saturn.
• WorldsAway’s Pride world opens.

1997

• Hallway is opened to the public as part of the beta test for WorldsAway 2.0.
• Tim Lavalli is hired at Fujitsu Software Corporation and becomes known in the Dreamscape as Brother Echo.

July

• WorldsAway releases the 2.0 upgrade.

• Jeffrey Douglas who was formerly known as Oracle Vaserius in the Dreamscape, leaves Fujitsu.
• Glass City is released in Korea.
• Hallway is renamed to Hotel Silicon.
• The WorldsAway group is moved from being a part of Fujitsu Software Corporation, to being under the control of Fujitsu Business Systems of America.

1998

• Habitat II opens their Graceville world, a clone of the Dreamscape world, using the WorldsAway 2.0 client and server architecture.
• Scott Moore who was formerly known as Oracle Teresias in the Dreamscape, leaves Fujitsu.