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The abandoned online cities where avatars still linger

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Decades-old experimental chat spaces designed to look like crude three-dimensional towns still inexplicably operate on forgotten servers. Occasional curious travelers log in to find incredibly surreal, decaying geometry occasionally populated by users who have seemingly left their avatars logged into the void for twenty straight years.

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