NeoHabitat Project

The open source Neoclassical Habitat Server Project. Bringing back the very first (circa 1986) MMO/Virtual World/Avatars!

[𝕏 F. Randall Farmer 𝕏 @frandallfarmer]

@RenoProjectIV Our most famous #metaverse #virtualworlds paper, The Lessons of Lucasfilm Habitat now has original backing documentation in the form of recovered in-world newsletters! This great restoration work!

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

The Neohabitat Slack server is moving to The MADE's Discord (since it is the public-facing platform for The MADE community.)

Here is an Invitation. https://t.co/DLtKXR8k3O

Watch for the Slack archive to appear there soon!

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@RenoProjectIV @frandallfarmer Thanks for your great work finding this @RenoProjectIV !

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

Please help with the effort to restore and preserve the first commercial #VirtualWorld / #Metaverse: QLink's Club Caribe (built on Lucasfilm's Habitat) !

https://t.co/fVsOHqVl64

@TheMADE @RenoProjectIV #c64 #VideoGames #ClubCaribe

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

RIP: Vernor Vinge. You had a huge influence on me via Chip Morningstar. You are the first person I know of that was is memorialized on a virtual currency: the Lucasfilm's Habitat Token c. 1984:

[𝕏 F. Randall Farmer 𝕏 @frandallfarmer]

@epopt The Habitat Token is a 23-sided plastic coin is slightly larger than an American quarter, with a portrait of Vernor Vinge and the motto "Fiat Lucre" on its face, and the text "Good for one fare" on the back; these details are difficult to make out on the Commodore 64 screen.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@AudioOblivion @frandallfarmer Check out https://t.co/2EIsmrJmiJ and you will see those pixels moved into modern rendering space....

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

Thanks to the amazing contributions of Neohabitat volunteer @spinthedleyq there are now thumbnails of every Habitat region, which are now integrated with the navigation bar! Amazing!

https://t.co/y3hlMzctdZ

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@rafaelmmv That can work. Be sure to check out the documentation on how to do it. Requirements are pretty constrained. If you have trouble, join the slack.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

The first graphical Virtual World/MMO/Metaverse closed 30 years ago after a successful 8 year run...

https://t.co/qeZSFipE0i

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

That was supposed to be @spindleyq I was thanking.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

The first graphical Virtual World/MMO/Metaverse closed 30 years ago after a successful 8 year run...

https://t.co/qeZSFipE0i

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

This event is TONIGHT.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

https://t.co/iBMyukBGXq

There's gonna be a party in the first virtual world/mmo (Lucasfilm Habitat) on FRIDAY NIGHT!

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

https://t.co/iBMyukBGXq

There's gonna be a party in the first virtual world/mmo (Lucasfilm Habitat) on FRIDAY NIGHT!

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@ectom0rph Yeah. 23 time zones gotta convert. It's the way of things. Sorry.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

https://t.co/iBMyukBGXq

There's gonna be a party in the first virtual world/mmo (Lucasfilm Habitat) on FRIDAY NIGHT!

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@ectom0rph This event has been delayed one week, until 1/12/24.
The conversion for 7 PM EST to GMT is Midnight.

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

https://t.co/TM7uJIY5hR

Original Lucasfilm Habitat open source graphics and animations have been unlocked for the web!

[𝕏 F. Randall Farmer 𝕏 @frandallfarmer]

Saturday, January 13 2024 will be the first HACK DAY to open Electric Communities source code, docs, and applications. Hosted ty @TheMADE . First we open source the 1st 3D distributed metaverse, circa 1997: ECHabitats!
#windows #java #metaverse
https://t.co/jSTPZ1fbJl

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@RenoProjectIV That was from https://t.co/l2g1IBSqVG

It might be possible to find and port the Fujitsu Habitat code tho... It was in C on Unix as I recall...

[NeoHabitat Project @NeoHabitatProj]

@RenoProjectIV concept, which for that day and place was somewhat exotic, so they just implemented what they knew, which was a terminal-mainframe architecture. Their “client” was basically a fancy, highly specialized graphics terminal; all the real work was done on the server." 3/3