Dirk-Jan de Bruin's Weblog

As mentioned in my post "The End of a World" I was an active member of the WorldsAway community, especially the Hallway World/Hotel Silicon community.

I have collected some links regarding WorldsAway that interested me.

- Bruce Damer (1997). "WorldsAway". digitalspace.com. . Retrieved on 2008-02-25. I have worked together with Bruce Damer from 1998-2001 (see the Papers section). Here you can read Bruce's pages about WorldsAway for his book Avatars.

- Edd Coats has an interactive map which shows you what Hotel Silicon looked like. As you can see, the graphics were quite basic, even for 1998. This didn't stop the fun, just like simple 2D systems like ThePalace the people were almost more important than the technology (or as Randy Farmer & Chuck Morningstar would put it: "It's the people, stupid").

See the map here.
And here you can find Edd's outstanding collection of rare pictures. It surely took me back to the old days when viewing them.
PS: A lot of the orange colored Avatars were members of the Twinkle Clan (or ex-members, like Tito).

Also, here you can find a transcript of one of the meetings of the Contact Consortium SocioAthro Special Interest Group in Hotel Silicon.

Finally, check out this Silicon Soup archive. Silicon Soup was a small community 'paper' written by and for members of the Hotel Silicon community. This copy must have been stored quite near the end of the community, as it mentions various of the final transitions.