User:3catfish3/Cyber pets

Cyber pets are virtual creatures that you can interact with, sometimes even care about and share on the internet.There are hundreds of cyber pet sites that allow you to adopt these virtual creatures, or even make your own.

Cyber pets originally started off as graphics given away from sites to create more traffic back to the originating site. The site would have pages and pages of different creatures you could take and put on your page and you just linked back to the site you got the picture from.In result, your site was decorated, but the one you got the pet from got more traffic.

Not too long after that people began to name their pets and soon you were able to make your own account, thus, all the pets you adopted were unique.This brought up a new type of site where you often created histories and stories around that pet.Forums were made and people were able to roleplay with their pets too.

Then along came Neopets and changed things again. Instead of the graphics being static and not changing, you could feed and play with your creatures and change them.You were able to go multiplayer to chat with other owners, trade items or even pets.

Soon after with more web programming evolving, "click pets" came into existence.In order to make them grow from stage to stage, you had to make other people click on them.To do that, people joined many other forums and left links to their pets in their signatures or special clicking topics for users to click on them.