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Formerly known as Worlds Chat, Worlds.com is a collection of entertainment-related virtual worlds featuring everything from rock bands to sports teams. Other than a press release from March 2003 announcing free VIP accounts for US military members and families, the web site and related worlds seem to be frozen in time somewhere in the year 2001. While the worlds are up and running, they appear to be continually empty and the commercial links to related e-commerce sites no longer work.

The Worlds.com heyday may be over now, but it's worth a visit for those interested in the history of virtual worlds. In many ways, this entertainment-related collection of worlds perfectly encapsulates focus of the first wave of virtual worlds in the mid-1990's, with its merging of dotcom boom hype and giddy utopianism. Moving through these worlds now is like visiting a museum. A very weird museum at times (the "Sadness" and "Glee" worlds are particularly trippy!), but an interesting peek back in time.

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