There was of course Habitat, and later World's Away. I came across this 1996 wired article about the "metaworlds" of the time: https://www.wired.com/1996/06/av

There was of course Habitat, and later World's Away. I came across this 1996 wired article about the "metaworlds" of the time: https://www.wired.com/1996/06/avatar-2/ https://www.wired.com/1996/06/avatar-2/ There's also the classic: "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer Electric Communities > This paper was presented at The First Annual International Conference on Cyberspace in 1990. It was published in Cyberspace: First Steps, Michael Benedikt (ed.), 1990, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Worlds/LucasfilmHabitat.html http://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Virtual_Wo... Ed: see also this comment for habitat revived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055742