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In the fictional universe of the .hack franchise, The World is the mega-popular MMORPG created and distributed by the CC Corporation (also known as the CyberConnect Corporation) for the ALTIMIT OS operating system. Released on the Virgin's Kiss fictitious holiday, it is the first online game after the Pluto's Kiss virus incident that crashed the entire internet in 2005. Players interact with The World using Virtual reality headsets and DualShock-like controllers.

History

Background

On December 24, 2005 the "Pluto's Kiss" incident occurred. A virus causes all networks around the globe to crash, and all computers and systems connected to the network to experience malfunctions. Though the network recovers 77 minutes later, the fragile nature of the worldwide network has been exposed. It is later discovered that a 10-year-old grade school student has been behind the virus.

The United Nations' World Network Council (WNC), reintroduces a proposal that had been vetoed earlier in April of 2004, of the "New Generation Hyper Net" with the corporate network OS ALTIMIT as the standard OS, as it had been the only Operating System to evade "Pluto's Kiss". By Summer of 2006, ALTIMIT has become a worldwide name and with this, many core developers leave to form the CyberConnect Corporation (CC Corporation).

Fragment

Not soon after, in that same summer, CC Corporation was established, were they approached by a German programmer Harald Hoerwick, who pitched his product, a MMORPG named "Fragment". Though network games are heavily restricted by the WNC, due still to the relative newness of the new world network, in the hopes of reviving the network game market, the WNC grants special permission to the CC Corporation in May of 2007.

By July, the beta product known as "Fragment", has the largest amount of network users online. As it's popularity grows, rumors begin to circulate of it's connection to text known as the Epitaph of Twilight.

The World

By October, after nearly all of the servers in the world are now running ALTIMIT OS, the WNC decides to remove all restrictions from the new network starting December 24,2007 and declaring that day as a new holiday to be known as "Virgin's Kiss". CC Corporation announces that "Fragment" would officially be launched on that day, as the game The World. Over the next few months, a flurry of reservations caused CC Corporation's stock to surpass even Altimit Corporation. Downloads began at midnight, December 24.

As of 2008 it has over 20 million players.

Revision 2

After a fire in the main CC Corp. building in they year 2015, The World servers and much of its data, including character data, was destroyed.* It was later spliced with another project CC Corp. was working on at the time and re-released as The World R:2 in 2016. However, many old players were upset when they found they could not use their old characters and quit playing the game. Fortunately, the new version attracted many new players and over twelve million copies of The World R:2 were sold worldwide.

By 2017, Player Killers have overrun The World R:2.

Note: The main reasons why they destroyed all the character files, was to cover up the characters nicknamed "the .hackers" (the protagonists of Twilight Incident
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