In
the summer of 1997 I started wandering around the virtual
worlds, a kind of 3D chatroom which was really, and I mean
really, intriguing. Obviously, before making these trips,
I downloaded the program from the website activeworlds.
On the first trips I hadn't really understood that you could
join in the chat without necessarily becoming an aw-citizen.
Once I had got over this problem, I began to wander around
the worlds as a tourist with the greatest of ease, discovering
straight away: