1986 Habitat

Online multiuser virtual world using avatar/virtual characters. (Started in 1986)

http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html

design of the system (lessons/info)

screengrabs

http://www.cs.uta.fi/~kjr/ACHCI/tang.html

Fujitsu licensed Habitat in 1988 and released Habitat in Japan in 1990, in part to promote a new line of multimedia PC's called FM Towns over a network service called NiftyServe. A paper studying the use of Fujitsu Habitat was published: Yoshida, A., and J. Kakuta, "People who live in a virtual world", Proceedings of the IEEE International Worskhop on Robot and Human Communication, Tokyo, September 1992, pp. 252-256.