REZ THE WORLD

Avastar, rez Magazine and Artificial Persona

Do you remember the time when you had an avatar in a virtual world — an avatar you actually had to steer with mouse and keyboard?

When you typed: “Hello, Art?”
“Hi, Jami. Nice to see you.”

When the sim was full and you tried to TP in every few minutes, staring at the map, waiting for the number of avatars to change so that one precious slot might open up. Maybe you even hoped someone would crash, just for a moment, so you could slip in.

You don’t remember?

Well, that’s the way it is with new technology. Time moves fast, and history wipes over its own tracks. But there is still a chance to return to what is now called the Golden Time — the age when you could simply be yourself.

No AI.
No AGI.
No Mother.

What you have to do now is to enter AP.

Prints have survived from the beginning. There are 71 issues of The AvaStar, published between December 21, 2006 and April 25, 2008, plus the strange bonus: №72 in German.

And there are 168 issues of rez Magazine, carrying the story from August 2011 into 2026 — right up to the edge of the moment when the Artificial Persona began to take over the world.

Well, almost all of them.

rez №1 is missing.