{
  "title": "Avatar Palace: selected dated moments",
  "reviewed": "2026-09-11",
  "scope": "Avatar Palace community history; broader Palace client history is separately catalogued in software-history.json.",
  "sourceAccess": "Original private correspondence remains in the Avatar Palace collection; public sources are linked in the records. Private messages and account details are not reproduced.",
  "limits": [
    "Avatar Palace founding date remains unconfirmed.",
    "Selected records do not establish uninterrupted activity or universal client adoption dates.",
    "The short mood and continuity passages are curatorial interpretation.",
    "Early proposals are not evidence of implemented features."
  ],
  "moments": [
    {
      "id": "avp-2013",
      "dates": [
        "2013-02-02",
        "2013-02-17"
      ],
      "title": "A bundle to bring along.",
      "evidence": [
        "A service notice names www.avatarpalace.net.",
        "A sent Shunis message includes 26-shunis.favs and File → Import Props → Bundle instructions."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "Prop bundle import is documented; the exact client version is unnamed.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2013"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2016",
      "dates": [
        "2016-09-16",
        "2016-10-03"
      ],
      "title": "New looks. Familiar faces.",
      "evidence": [
        "A support request to Avatar Palace describes animated avatar conversion from Palace32 to PalaceChat.",
        "An outgoing New Avatars! message announces shunis and Halloween avatars."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "A visitor describes export, import, animation settings, and frame order; this is not a universal transition date.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2016"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2017",
      "dates": [
        "2017-11-20"
      ],
      "title": "An address to find us.",
      "evidence": [
        "A PalaceWorld approval notice records ElitePalaces verification of the owner of avatarpalace.net:9998 and invites bot or prop-room setup."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "A server address is identified; the notice does not identify visitors’ clients or establish configured features.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2017"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2018",
      "dates": ["2018-08-07"],
      "title": "Bring the quests back.",
      "evidence": ["Josef's petition includes a dated announcement that quests would return."],
      "source": "https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lets-bring-the-bot-quests-back",
      "access": "Indexed page text reviewed 2026-09-11; direct retrieval unavailable.",
      "softwareConnection": "Bot games provided shared activities across Palace communities, illustrated by supplied screenshots and Josef's recollections.",
      "limits": "Announcement date, not a verified game-resumption or screenshot-capture date.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2018"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2026",
      "dates": [
        "2026-09-11"
      ],
      "title": "Keeping the story in reach.",
      "evidence": [
        "Avatar Palace has a public museum.",
        "Published project pages distinguish current community access from private restoration and early client development."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "The current community server is provided by thepalace.app while Avatar Palace develops its own foundation.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2026"
    }
  ],
  "undatedStories": [
    {
      "id": "the-gate",
      "status": "Recovered Avatar Palace background; original date and artist unconfirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "faces",
      "status": "Owner attributes the smileys to Nino for Palace Chat; original artwork date unconfirmed."
    }
  ]
}