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The next step after Cybergate was a product which was first named "CyberHub Client"(CHC) The first betas of this product came out around late September or early October of '96. It went by the title of CHC throughout the beta versions
up until release 1.2, at which point it was renamed to "Passport". Passport operated as a plugin for Netscape Navigator only at first, then eventually went on to work with MSIE. Along with Passport came an explosion of new worlds, such as Flamingo City, Portal World, and many others. Passport featured the ability to find friends in different worlds by searching for them specificly, or by looking across the other worlds one by one to see exactly who was in them. All in all, it had all the right ideas.
A problem that plagued Passport was the VRML viewer wars. It seemed that nothing was standard for more than a week. Between Cosmo, Live 3-D, GLView, Worldview, and who knows what else, it became increasingly tough to have the right combination to view
the worlds with. Nothing wrong with blaxxun's efforts, but it presented a problem to be addressed in their next product, CCpro.
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