Activeworlds ALPHAWORLD - Exploring an abandoned 1990s online world

Exploring a digital graveyard, in search of my old home lost long ago.
Song: Bruce Springsteen - Philadelphia [MIDI Version]
Alphaworld began in the mid-late 90s as a hub in the online avatar-based virtual world known as "Active Worlds".
The world is still accessible today, though it maybe gets only a few visitors a day. Many humans have walked this world by proxy with their avatars, and this world has seen everything we have. It has seen drama and deceit, but it has seen love and kindness. It has seen deaths, and it has seen births. It has seen separation, and it has seen marriage.
Alphaworld is a world beyond our own, existing in another realm entirely. It's the world that, in the 1990s, bridged us across impassable expanses of ocean. It bridged us when we couldn't fly to see each other. It allowed us to connect, to see, and to be with others that we might not have been with.
Today, the world is a perfectly preserved time capsule, a relic of the 1990s to the 2000s, undestroyed by the elements like the relics of our true world. It stands today just as it did then. In essence, this is as close as we can be to stepping back into 1998.

[@Contrajoe]

It's so strange the internet, just like reality, hosts "abandoned" areas like this

[@tonbezembinder7692]

I got to know my current wife in this game, what a childhood sentiment, tears in my eyes that those good times online are over!

[@jaspercarmack]

Don't be sad they're over, be glad they happened :)

[@markforshee1224]

why should they be over??...we are still here....still having good times..

[@tonbezembinder7692]

@@markforshee1224 oh i thought it was offline, download kept failing. I will try again tomorrow, thanks for your message.

[@starywood9404]

People even got married in there

[@markforshee1224]

its not dead just less folks go there..but on a good time there are over 30 folks online...still have parties...folks still building, some folks visit from time to time. i have a very large contact list..so i see alot more folks then others. oh i have been going there for 22 years. i have 3 projects i am working on more on the way...so if you feel the erge to visit, please do, always good to see returning citizens.

[@markforshee1224]

@@jennalee1 if you type my name in youtube search you can see the vids i made in AW....my name there is Highwayman

[@markforshee1224]

@@jennalee1 sorry wrong account...type in Highwayman48 to see the vids....sorry..

[@djancak]

i was on this as a literal child, made some goofy sky palace somewhere and like a parking garage. miss these days with alpha world, worlds 3d, and the palace, pIRCh and Comic Chat

[@bigbawlz69]

Active worlds walked so vrchat could run.

[@jamesc2010]

We were so far ahead of our time. Wonder if my castle is still out there. I forgot the coordinates.

[@jaspercarmack]

I've seen a few castles here and there, I'd say it's very likely still out there :)

[@markforshee1224]

if you remember your cit number you can do a property search

[@zlongs]

Yup it should still be there. My brother and I looked up the coordinates of buildings we made when we were age 8 and went on a trip down memory lane

[@Grandremone]

What is the song?

[@jaspercarmack]

It's a MIDI Version of "Bruce Springsteen - Philadelphia"

[@Grandremone]

@@jaspercarmack Thanks! I thought I recognized it haha