The Palace is an Internet-based multimedia chat architecture, kind of a
           cross between IRC and hypercard yet completely unique in many
        respects. You can author and run your own social online environment
          on your server, and visit other people's servers. The architecture is
       fast, extensible through a scripting language, and can visually look like
          anything you want! Because there are servers distributed across the
       Internet (like the Web), there is no single central authority and the load
                                                    is distributed.