Metaversed has a post titled “7 Reasons Why Virtual Worlds Are Like the Web Circa 1997.”
Funny, I’ve usually used the one-liner that they’re more like Prodigy in 1994. After all, by 1997 we had common browsers, even though they supported the <blink></blink> tag. In 1994 Prodigy actually sent down pictures of the screen to be drawn bitmap style. Which let me tell you, was brutal on a modem.