The program was part of a larger set of dialects and implementations created by Seymour Papert aimed at triggering the development of abstract ideas by children through experimentation.

Modules for weather and plants were released in 1997, as well as a web browser plugin to view projects in Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator without the full software installed.

A “Robotics edition” was released for both platforms that worked with Lego RCX programmable bricks and the Handy Cricket microcontroller system.

[4] MicroWorlds JR, a derivative product teaching coding to young children who cannot read, was released in 2004 for Windows XP and 2005 for Mac OS X.

[5] MicroWorlds relies on Logo, a computer programming language based on words and syntax that are intended to be easy to learn and remember.