[MUD-Dev] RIP Electric Communities

[Frank Crowell]

Tamzen Cannoy wrote:

> Communities.com, formerly Electric Communities, filed for Chapter 7
> bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern
> District of California. ``It was just a dot-com company with dot-com
> problems,'' said a former company executive. The Cupertino company
> offered an online community in which people used interactive text
> and voice chat in a visual environment.

Seemed it wasn't that long ago they got a very large financial package
from some backers.

Communities was real the home of some major virtual worlds players in
the U.S. We had three major influences that came out of the same
region: VPL, Worlds, and Communities. All that is left of VPL is their
technology which is locked deep inside Sun.  Worlds technology was
acquired, don't remember who did that, but it was outside the US.

But to characterize Communities as "just a dot-com with dot-com
problems" really understates what Communities was about. But I guess
that shows the mindset there at least at the executive level.
Dot-comism was always a get rich scheme.

frank



_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev at kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev