Chronology of creating Online 3D Games

1969
United States Defense Department creates ARPANET, which evolved into the internet.

1978
First MUD (multi-user dungeon) developed; it can still be played at http://www.british-legends.com/

1980
Tim Berners-Lee develops Enquire, a hypertext system that was an early precursor of HTML and the Web

1982
William Gibson publishes his short story Burning Chrome in Omni magazine, in which he invents the word cyberspace.

1983
ARPANET is split into a public ARPANET (today's internet) and a classified MILNET.

1984
Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial MMORPG, was launched on Compuserve.

1984
William Gibson publishes Neuromancer.

1985
LucasFilm launches Habitat for Commodore 64. Habitat is the first MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) with a graphical user interface.

1988
Habitat launched for public use as Club Caribe, on the online service QuantumLink (later became AOL)

1988
LucasFilm licenses Habitat to Fujitsu for use in Japan

1990
- Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau communicate between two computers using the first web server.

- Fujitsu implements Fujitsu Habitat on its FM-Towns personal computer

1991
Tim Berners-Lee makes his web server available for download via telnet

1992
Mosaic, the first web browser in widespread use, is developed.

1992
- Ultima Underworld is the first 3D game. It was based on the Ultima RPG, that first appeared around 1980.

- Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash was published, creating a new vision of virtual worlds.

1993
- The Web goes public - Web technology and program code are placed in the public domain.
- Cybertown - first prototype

1994
Fujitsu licenses and modifies Habitat for distribution as WorldsAway. It later became Vzones's Dreamscape; the other two Vzones worlds are newHorizone and Second Kingdom.

1995
Cybertown launched

2002
The Sims Online launched

June 2003
Second Life launched

Oct 2003
There launched

2004
World of Warcraft launched

2007
Multiverse - Build your own virtual world!