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<span class="topflex"><a href="https://means.tv/" target="_blank"><img src="images/meanstv.png"></a>PRESENTS:</span>
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<p>WorldsChat is a social virtual world that was launched in 1994, and is still online today. Users can equip avatars and hang out in 3D spaces, conversing with each other over text-based chat.</p>
<p>WorldsChat allowed users to create their own spaces and avatars. Over the years, they transformed it in a way its developers could never predict. Today, it is not just a time capsule of the early 90's utopian web; it also contains a vast labyrinth of outsider art that has arisen within its fringes.</p>
<p>We spoke with GradualDIME, an amateur archivist documenting WorldsChat's user-created art and environments. He gave us a tour of his favorite places in WorldsChat, and told the story of what happened when 4chan's paranormal board discovered it.</p>
<p>This interview was recorded in 2015, five years before the Preserving Worlds pilot was released. It was originally meant to become a scene in the documentary feature <a href="https://sarasotamovie.com/" target="_blank">Sarasota Half in Dream</a>, but we ended up spinning it off into its own short.</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="http://users.worldsonline.com/users/jimbly/" target="_blank">JimblysWorlds</a> maintains instructions on how to access WorldsChat on modern operating systems, and other help resources and downloads.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://worldschat.fandom.com/wiki/Worlds_Chat" target="_blank">WorldsChat Wiki</a> is well-maintained and contains documentation on all aspects of the software, including its history, culture, events, and fan-created worlds.</li>
<li><a href="https://worlio.com/library/" target="_blank">Worlio</a> collects interesting media files and oral histories related to WorldsChat. It also hosts GradualDIME's <a href="https://files.worlio.com/files/WorldsPlayer/misc/Worlds%20Research%20Papers%20by%20GradualDIME.pdf" target="_blank">WorldsChat research paper</a> from 2012.</li>
<li>There is a fairly active <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/worldsonline/" target="_blank">WorldsChat SubReddit</a> where people discuss current goings-on in the community.</li>
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<h2>Music from this Episode</h2>
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<li>"Self Help" by <a href="https://lilytapesanddiscs.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Lung Cycles</a></li>
<li>"hub3a.mid" from the <a href="https://files.worlio.com/files/WorldsChat/media/soundtrack/ChatGold/" target="_blank">WorldsChat installation folder</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-NHcfu-IE" target="_blank">"f u t u r e b l u e s"</a> by GradualDIME (AKA <a href="https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-retro" target="_blank">Cosmic Retro</a>)</li>
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