Recommended Hot Spots

This is where you can get tips on places to visit from the "insiders". These correspondents are leaders in their worlds, who take the time to seek out new, exciting, and different places to visit in their worlds. Don't miss a single destination on this list if you want to know what's cool in the AW Universe!

Gandalf Atlantis World Page

Gandalf's Atlantis Recommendation Hey there! Since this is my first time writing for the newsletter recommending the Atlantis Hot Spot, I thought I should start as Dylan Thomas did, "To begin, at the beginning". Atlantis GZ was build by Cryonics back in 1997, 1998, and since then, has been enjoyed by many a fish swimming by. This certainly is a treasure of the lost city of Atlantis!

Goober King UTN Web Site

Goober King's UTN Recommendation DashTown - AW 31614.6s 26149.2e 0.2a It's a town that offers so much diversity, it ought to be it's own state! Split up into four distinct regions; the French Quarter, Dineh Country, Greek Theatre, and Mayor's Area; this town has something for everyone. Bounce around in the Mosh Pit, pay homage to the only goddess with a fro, stake a claim in the Dineh wilderness, and be sure to check out the infamous pink couch at the Hotel Dashiere. Plenty of space still available, so check it out today!

Daphne AWHS Web Site

Daphne's Historical Recommendation This month's "Hot Spot" from the AWHS is Alpha World's first community building project known as Sherwood Forest... The "instigator" of this community build is our own AW old-timer and book author, Bruce Damer, who goes by the nickname, digigardener... Among his varied roles in cyberspace, Bruce Damer is also is the "mover and shaker" behind the Contact Consortium, best known to us through their bringing of the "AVATARS Convention" to ActiveWorlds for the last four years... Having been given permission by digigardener to "plagerize" his web page about Sherwood Forest, I'm taking it easy this month and letting digigardener tell you a bit about Sherwood Forest himself through a few excerpts from the web... :o) From the Sherwood Forest, Community Project Story web page at https://www.ccon.org/sherwood/sherstory.html: "Sherwood Forest Community was an experiment in virtual community building and culture in the first constructivist Cyberspace environment: AlphaWorld." "Sherwood was built and populated by members of the Contact Consortium, an organization dedicated to studying, promoting and enriching Internet-based virtual worlds as a new space for human contact and culture." "The purpose of Sherwood was to design a very natural, attractive setting with woodlands, flowers and flowing water and then attract a community of users to build a village community in that space." Why did we pick the theme of Sherwood Forest? Apart from the attractive fable of Robin Hood (which supplied some imaginative roles), it turns out that the Luddite movement against technology began in the Sherwood Forest region of Britain. We felt that if there was a rebellion against life in this new virtual worlds technology it might as well happen inside a virtual Sherwood Forest!" "When it went online in March of 1996, the Sherwood Forest community experiment was fun and very lively and deemed successful based on the richness of the experience and unexpected spontaneous occurances. Over sixty individuals participated, ranging from 9 year old children to a professional architect and database designer." Reading the web page to learn more about the area before you visit Sherwood Forest will make a visit there even more interesting for you... :o) If you would like more information on the Sherwood Forest project and inhabited virtual worlds in cyberspace, bring up your web browser and go to this URL: digitalspace.com/papers/vwpaper/vw98chap.html

jstone2004 AWTeen's Web Site AWTeen's Newsgroup

jstone's AWTeen Recommendation Bridge Display - 265.02N 749.58E 1.50a 82 .Zidane., one of AWTeen's most creative architectural builders, has built an amazing Bridge Display. It features all types of bridge, and even a large suspension bridge, utilizing AWTeen's 3D object rotation. I really enjoyed the build, because it is not like many other builds in AWTeen. It is unique, and an awesome display of what builders can do with architecture.I highly recommend you go out and visit this site. It is one of my favorite builds in AWTeen!