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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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There was this one program I used a lot back in the day; I'm pretty sure it was called Virtual Places.
Basically it was a browser that turned any web page into a chat room, and you could chat with anybody browsing the same page. Everybody would have these little square avatars; mine was an eyeball. And you could get a bunch of people on this little "bus" that somebody could "drive" and all move to a different web site together.
Oh. My god. Why did I never know about that. That would have been incredible. I feel honestly robbed now T_T
That shouldn’t be too hard to recreate. Maybe somebody already made it
It's one of those things that makes me wish I knew more than 'hello world' level coding; I would love to resurrect this.
that sounds like a lot of fun, reminds me a bit of the online world in the Megaman Battle Network series. always loved the idea of a virtual "3rd place" if you will.
That's really what it was like.
Nowadays it would be overrun with bots, though, I bet.