Cycosmos

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Are U Real? (E-Cyas)
  DE 78 January 17, 2000 (4 weeks)

Cycosmos was a community and chat platform from ID Media AG , which was presented at CeBIT Home in 1998 . The whole of Hall 18 of the exhibition grounds was used for the presentation. On January 3, 2000, a music single produced by Alex Christensen by the Cycosmos Avatar E-Cyas with the title Are u real? released. The title stayed in the German single charts for four weeks. Twelve months later, Cycosmos was closed on December 20th. In the meantime, Cycosmos had over 800,000 registered users. With the announcement of the closure, the software Cynigma developed by IBM and ID Media was announced as the successor. A relaunch of Cycosmos was announced at the end of 2007 . ID Media AG has been piloting a new community under the names Board of Music and Musikunterricht.de since October 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. officialcharts.de: Charts DE
  2. Golem.de: CYCOSMOS - The virtual dimension
  3. funkschau: CeBIT goes HOME '98  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / funkschau.biz  
  4. FOCUS Online: Shining Hanover - Highlights from the Cebit history
  5. SPIEGEL ONLINE: E-Cyas makes threat come true
  6. BBC News: Virtual pop star's chart bid
  7. heise online: Cycosmos online contact exchange before the end
  8. WELT ONLINE: The virtual double life of Bernd Kolb
  9. WELT ONLINE: The "virtual universe" Cycosmos stops operating
  10. berlin collective: CYCOSMOS re-launch
  11. Music network "Board of Music"
  12. Music teacher database and music lesson search "Musikunterricht.de"