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Cybertown Cybertown
URL: www.cybertown.com
Company: Integrated Virtual Networks
Launch Date: 1995 (Colony City launched in 1998)
Cost: 30-day free trial, then members can join one of many tiered subscription plans
Click here for system requirements

Windows Only Accessible to Windows users only
View the Cybertown Screen Shot Gallery

An early Blaxxun project, Cybertown is a virtual world with a futuristic sci-fi theme greatly influenced by the cyberpunk genre of literature and film. According to the Cybertown company web site, there are over half a million cyber-citizens in the world who are encouraged to build homes, hold in-world jobs, and participate in Cybertown's elaborate political system. When that gets to be too much, they can let off some steam by going clubbing or visiting in-world concerts and movie theaters.

While most virtual worlds recognize the general influence of Neal Stephenson's concept of the "Metaverse" in the novel Snow Crash, Cybertown comes the closest to attempting to recreate the Metaverse as it described in the novel, complete with a Black Sun club.

Visit this world now!

Links
Cybertown in the Media
http://www.cybertown.com/pascal/press/

"The Road to CyberTown" by Marshal M. Rosenthal, New Architect Magazine, January 1997
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/archives/1997/01/insi/

The Cybertown FAQ
http://philliphansel.com/cybertown/index.htm


Other Worlds
If you like this world, you might also like Active Worlds, Second Life, Traveler or Worlds.com



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