Welcome to another weekly edition of Cyberbits!

Cyberbits is a weekly curated newsletter of fascinating finds on the internet, from random Reddit threads to weird webpages. I’ll also include interesting bytes I come across working on longer Cybernaut essays—like cool clips I had to leave on the cutting room floor to avoid making each article 5,000+ words. I send this out every Friday!

Internet Nostalgia

Active Worlds, developed in 1995, was one of the earliest online spaces for users to build internet avatars and create their own cyber worlds.

In a delightfully retro webpage from Dr. Bruce Damer, a former Active Worlds enthusiast and cyberspace pioneer, he details the experience of exploring this virtual world: