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= Origins =
= Origins =
In 1993, Fujitsu had shown interest in bringing [https://wiki.renoproject.org/index.php/Fujitsu_Habitat Fujitsu Habitat] to the west. The plan was to backport Fujitsu Habitat to Windows computers. However, the source code for Fujitsu Habitat revealed major architectural problems and so minimal progress was made on bringing this to fruition.<ref>http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/</ref> It was instead decided that development efforts would be better focused on writing something from the ground up. The original creators of Habitat, Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer were both onboard and had already done this once before.
This was originally the origins of WA in general and whilst it is intertwined with the Dreamscape, it is better to keep them seperate. This particular section will eventually focus on the origins of the Dreamscape itself.


= Things =
= Things =

Revision as of 17:05, 5 May 2022

Dreamscape
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Developer(s): Fujitsu Open Source Solutions, Inc
Publisher(s): Fujitsu
Producer(s): Randy Farmer, Jeffery Douglas
Designer(s): Randy Farmer
Platform(s): Windows, Mac
Released: (Beta): August 8th 1995[1],

(Public Opening): September 15th, 1995[2],

(Official 1.0 release): November 15th 1995[3]

Origins

This was originally the origins of WA in general and whilst it is intertwined with the Dreamscape, it is better to keep them seperate. This particular section will eventually focus on the origins of the Dreamscape itself.

Things

An end of beta party was held on 29th August 1995 at the Bar-L Bar[4].

More to come soon

Here's some more stuff.

Timeline of inworld events

This is a list of inworld events that happened and where possible, the date they happened. This list is subjective as so much happened inworld. The criteria for making this list is that it could be storyline related, or an event of note or something that went down in infamy.

1995

August

13th

  • The first ever Ghost Race is held inworld and the first ever winner was an avatar named “Shaker”, who won a spider[5].

1996

August

1st

  • The first ever Fern Day holiday was celebrated. The server experienced issues throughout most of the day however.

November

  • Meditation Park opens.

1997

June

11th

  • Acolyte Appreciation day is held and a ceremony is performed at Monument Square, presided by all three Oracles.

1998

March

29th

  • Oracle Teresias renounces Morpheus, embraces Phobetor and leaves the Dreamscape[6].

April

24th

  • The End of the age of Oracles and the beginning of the age of Avatars[7].

References

  1. ^ Internal Fujitsu E-mail
  2. ^ Internal Fujitsu E-mail
  3. ^ Internal Fujitsu E-mail
  4. ^ Internal Fujitsu E-mail
  5. ^ Kymer Clarion - August 14 1995, https://renoproject.org/pub/WorldsAway/Newspapers/Kymer_Clarion/FromMarianneG/CLAR001.TXT
  6. ^ Kymer Clarion - March 30th 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/20010823152807/http://clarion.kymer.net/03_98/into_heath/into_heath.htm
  7. ^ Kymer Clarion - April 25 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/20010904073509/http://clarion.kymer.net/04_98/age/age.htm