At Club Penguin, I adopted colorful pets called puffles and purchased kitsch furniture for my virtual igloo. "I was big on Club Penguin, Wizard101, Moshi Monsters, and this obscure one called Ourworld," he told me. Club Penguin, which ran from 2005 to 2017, stands out as one of the era's most beloved virtual worlds. "That same generation logged into Club Penguin to play with friends." In 2017 it shut down Club Penguin and replaced it with a mobile version, Club Penguin Island.

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Persons: millennials, Gen Zers, Dylan Maleno, Lance Priebe, I'd, Jake Hahn, they're, Sara Grimes, weren't, Flappy Bird, Disney, Toontown, they've, MMOs, Roblox, Ashley Hernandez, " Hernandez, Neopets, Dominic Law, Aimee Pearcy Organizations: Penguin, Disney, University of Toronto's, of Information, Fortnite, Facebook, The New York Times Locations: Pennsylvania, Wizard101, Moshi, Illinois, Fortnite, New York City