1. A method, comprising: modeling a multi-user virtual reality universe (VRU) process in a computer memory, the VRU comprising a model of a space including avatars each responsive to control input from corresponding ones of multiple clients; capturing data from the VRU process for archiving by a separate bulletin board application, wherein the bulletin board application is operative to provide access to archived data contributed by its subscribing users; recording a designated temporal portion of VRU animation data within a defined proximity of the data recording object to obtain recorded animation data comprising a record of a VRU event; and modeling a data recording object in the VRU process, the data recording object responsive to control input from ones of multiple clients to obtain recorded data from the VRU process for including in the archived data.