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Help, I'm trapped in this internet thing!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.132.169 (talk • contribs) 07:15, 16 September 2007

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[edit] Notes

I rewrote the article using citations that should establish the notability required by WP:WEB. The history section needs expanding as I could only find sources for the 1996 to 1997 period. Many useful sources are now deadlinks but are nevertheless still available via archive.org.

Worlds Away history is tied up with LucasArts' 1986 Habitat, which reappeared as both the downsized incarnation Club Caribe and the more elaborate Fujitsu Habitat. Fujitsu then launched a yet more sophisticated version on Compuserve in 1995. That was the original Worlds Away, or the world of Kymer. Here is where my research gets uncertain. In 1996 or 1997 the operators must have further expanded Worlds Away, not only adding turfs and more areas, but also launching different worlds using the same software but different graphics, objects, and users. Around 2001, it seems Worlds Away had evolved into (or was cancelled and relaunched as) the Dreamscape, and apparantly now as a few worlds.

My first idea was to merge the four (Habitat, Club Caribe, Worlds Away and Dreamscape) into one article that covered the whole history from 1985 (when Randy and Chip actually created Habitat) to the present day Strategem worlds, but I now think that would not work well, if only because they each have their own distinct communities. Maybe Worlds Away and Dreamscape are the most eligible merge candidates? I leave this to others to decide!

Meanwhile here are some archived useful links, before they become lost forever:

-Wikianon (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)