I pressed the 'E' key to interact. A text box appeared at the bottom of the screen:
A sharp, digital screeching filled my ears. The tea in the game spilled. The static on the TV in the game suddenly resolved into a live feed of the back of my own head. Facade.rar
I walked up to a window on the ground floor. Looking inside, I saw a perfectly rendered living room. A television was on, flickering with gray static. A half-eaten meal sat on a coffee table. Steam was still rising from a cup of tea. I pressed the 'E' key to interact
I tried to walk away, but my character wouldn't move. The camera began to zoom in on the window glass. The reflection of my "character" in the game started to clarify. It wasn't a generic avatar. It was a low-poly, pixelated version of me —sitting in my actual room, at my actual desk, wearing the same headset I had on right now. The static on the TV in the game
I found the link on an archived 2004 architecture board. The thread was titled "Experimental Living Modules," but every comment had been deleted by a moderator named Admin_00 . Only one post remained at the bottom, a single line of text from a user named User_None :