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On June 23, 1998 blaxxun interactive and
Cybertown launched a new online
community. ColonyCity consists of online
virtual communities where you can build
your own virtual house and interact in
virtual reality with others using avatars.
ColonyCity has its own social structure,
you can become a citizen, take jobs in the
community and earn community money.
Eventually taking on the name Cybertown, there were MANY unique places in
the city such as the City Hall, the
Newspaper, the Library and the Theater,
City Cafe and at later stage a Shopping
Mall. Initially, ColonyCity had three
different Colonies subdivided in sub-areas.
The first featured Virtual Worlds
including the Point World neighborhood, which looked absolutely nothing like our classic Pointworld. Like the thousands of other neighborhoods in Cybertown, Pointworld was made up of blocks, and each of those blocks were made up of around 30 houses, complete with a message board, block leader, and all the other ammenities that made the place entirely too close to a real world. Many of us became fed up with all of the squabbling and politics, so we branched off and now roam amongst the worlds of the Outer Limits, where there are no blocks, no block leaders, mayors, presidents, security chiefs, dogcatchers, firemen, or any other position which could be labeled as a job. Although some of us took this route, many of the blaxxun newbies did not choose to follow suit, which is why Cybertown today has a population that numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
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