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.

If you can provide a date for a major event or can confirm one, please get in touch with us. If you have proof of these dates but cannot publicly share them, we can discuss this to confirm the authenticity of the information.

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

March

• Habitat II is released in Japan on Windows, Mac and the Sega Saturn.

Unknown Date

• WorldsAway’s Pride world opens.

1997

July

• WorldsAway releases the 2.0 upgrade.

Unknown Date

• 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.
• 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.