Virtual Worlds Forum

It's easy to look forward, particularly when analysts are predicting mushrooming growth and revenues for virtual worlds in the next five years. But sometimes it pays to look back too, either to learn lessons from the past, or simply to remember where this industry started from. The Virtual Worlds Timeline should certainly help with that. It's just been launched by artist Annie Ok, who describes it as similar to a Wikipedia entry, with users able to register as editors and add events they feel were important. So far, according to Reuters it's got 14 editors and dozens of entries - mainly focusing on launches of key worlds, and relevant films/literature. It's not the first project of this nature, mind - check out the, ahem, Virtual Worlds Timeline too.