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Gaming & Virtual Worlds · Recorded milestone

Massively multiplayer online game

Recorded year1996

Meridian 59 (1996) and Ultima Online (1997) put thousands of players into one persistent graphical world on the internet.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.