This Month in Active Worlds History

Courtesy of OneSummer

A Look Back at the Headlines of May 2000

Activeworlds.com, Inc. Traded On Nasdaq Small-Cap Market Symbol: AWLD

May 3, 2000: Activeworlds.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWLD), Chairman, and C.F.O. JP McCormick announced that, effective at the opening of the market on May 3, 2000, Activeworlds.com, Inc. would be traded on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the following symbols: Common Stock: AWLD Warrant: AWLDW

Your Own Active Worlds Personal World Server

Personal Servers series would gives you the tools to express your creativity and build your own world. Open or restricted access

• Web address designation for custom content
• WWW file retrieval for images, sounds, and music
• Use of the original textures, models, sounds, music and avatars developed for AlphaWorld and Colony Alpha
• Use of original Metatropolis Avatars
• Newsgroup user support
• Free registered citizen numbers
• Active Worlds Personal Server License - $69.95*
*plus annual registration charge

Bot Of The Month Club

This month they take a look at a "bot" technique that was used to do repeated automated building, before the AW SDK was available. BinaryBud wrote RoboPic (as well as RoboBuilder and other utilities). The Bot was designed way before the AWSDK was available, and as such was considered a “macro” program. Its purpose was to take any graphic image and convert it to objects on the ground.

Flagg's Worlds To Watch

Some of the worlds that were on the world watch for this month were, Zuzu, Zeqbra, Zymos, XeRoN, WWWorld,Virtualy to only name a few.

May 2000 Recommended Hot Spots

M U N K U Y's Historical Recommendation - LittleBull's Fountain Park, one of the most impressive structures from early AW at aw 136.75S 73.3W 0.05a 270 Foundation Date: September 13, 1995.
Caring's Atlantis Recommendation - Pale's Zone, Sub Base - A "Must See"! Atlantis 21N 71E 4.5a
Canopus' Mars Recommendation - TheGlance's Decimal City, The best collection of sports, games and amusment park rides on Mar. Mars_189S_309W_3.6A

AlphaWorld Historical Society Tours

The AlphaWorld Historical Society was established in 1998 by active community members, with the goal of preserving the history of AlphaWorld and it's origins - specifically focusing on the 1995-1996 era - when AlphaWorld was still the only virtual world in cyberspace where one could stake one's claim and build homes, castles, islands, etc. Their projects including documenting and archiving all great historical builds in AlphaWorld - a treasure trove of coordinates which they dig into each month to give us the historical site of the month for the newsletter - and from which they draw the sites for the monthly AWHS tours.