Ancient SL History: Or, Where Have the Years Gone?

[Rhun DeCuir]

We were cleaning out the garage, and I found this ancient relic in a box.  It's the official guide put out by LL in 2007.  What a hoot!

[Madelaine McMasters]

I think it's pretty neat that, 15 years later, LL still see's SL as a place where we can piggy back ride on each other.

[Rhun DeCuir]

1 hour ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I think it's pretty neat that, 15 years later, LL still see's SL as a place where we can piggy back ride on each other.
 

I'm coming up on my 15th rezday in a little over a month.  Where has the time gone?

[Rowan Amore]

1 minute ago, Rhun DeCuir said:

I'm coming up on my 15th rezday in a little over a month.  Where has the time gone?

What's even more amazing is you can still buy it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

[Love Zhaoying]

6 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

What's even more amazing is you can still buy it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

I surmise that no one is being tasked by LL to buy and sell the same copies over and over (like a "cult") to keep the book on some "best seller" list!

I had wondered if there was a Kindle version so checked ("not currently available"), odd that there's a separate "digital" version (also not available) at a higher price than Kindle.

[Leora Greenwood]

12 hours ago, Rhun DeCuir said:

We were cleaning out the garage, and I found this ancient relic in a box.  It's the official guide put out by LL in 2007.  What a hoot!

I have a copy of that!  Somewhere...  somewhere...

[Sid Nagy]

I had a copy of that book too. But I think I gave it away for a charity garage sale a few years ago.

[Rhun DeCuir]

16 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

What's even more amazing is you can still buy it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

I can't believe that they are still actually selling it.  Not even an update?

[Rowan Amore]

2 minutes ago, Rhun DeCuir said:

I can't believe that they are still actually selling it.  Not even an update?

There is a volume 2 available.  One, I think it said.  

[Love Zhaoying]

I bet Volume 1 listed all the Residents and described all their parcels!

[Sid Nagy]

I found it not worth it's money. Never got further than somewhere halfway.
So I got rid of it elegantly, ready for a second life in someone else's bookcase.

Edited April 28, 2022 by Sid Nagy

[Myntz Mysterious]

On 4/26/2022 at 5:13 PM, Rhun DeCuir said:

We were cleaning out the garage, and I found this ancient relic in a box.  It's the official guide put out by LL in 2007.  What a hoot!

I had that book! Not sure what ever happened to it? Maybe discarded during one of my moves over the years. I believe that I had 2 or 3 from that series from the same publisher about SL. And had a smaller book by a different publisher that talked about the history of SL. Several chapters about a grey goo prim that plagued SL or something like that.

[Silent Mistwalker]

20 minutes ago, Myntz Mysterious said:

I had that book! Not sure what ever happened to it? Maybe discarded during one of my moves over the years. I believe that I had 2 or 3 from that series from the same publisher about SL. And had a smaller book by a different publisher that talked about the history of SL. Several chapters about a grey goo prim that plagued SL or something like that.

SL was attacked in November of 2006 by a worm that created self-replicating rings, similar to the ones from Sonic games. When users touched them, the rings multiplied, filling the grid with what LL called "grey goo." The service was closed briefly to clean up the rings and their nefarious code.

https://www.theregister.com/2006/11/24/secondlife_greygoo_attack/

https://www.wired.com/2006/11/sonicstyle-grey/

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Grey_Goo

Nefarious. Hmmm. *looks at @Madelaine McMasters and wonders* 😊

 

Edited April 28, 2022 by Silent Mistwalker

[Rilee Dallas]

That's funny sl used to have a players guide.

[SarahKB7 Koskinen]

Some of you have might have seen this before, but this is a video from 2001 when Second Life was in its early Alpha development stage and was then called Linden World!

 

Edited April 28, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen

[Lindal Kidd]

I have one of those Primitar avatars!

[bigmoe Whitfield]

On 4/26/2022 at 10:21 PM, Rowan Amore said:

What's even more amazing is you can still buy it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

Just bought one for myself. ty

[AnthonyJoanne]

I initially came to SL quite early in it's development.

It failed to impress, so I turned to other things. Mostly, I think, because of the third world internet that Austalia had at the time making it just too laggy for words.

Then some years later a friend lured me back and as we were exploring she told me about all the stuff I had missed. The sims that had come and gone. The spontaneous events that had just happened which were amazing.

I'm still kicking myself for missing out on all of that.

[Robberinthemuseum]

When I was a teen, I walked around naked with a free pen!s for a day or two before getting bored and quitting haha. I was really young. Can't remember well now but I enjoyed annoying people at the time, so the world was better off without me in it haha

[Madelaine McMasters]

On 4/28/2022 at 4:48 PM, Silent Mistwalker said:

SL was attacked in November of 2006 by a worm that created self-replicating rings, similar to the ones from Sonic games. When users touched them, the rings multiplied, filling the grid with what LL called "grey goo." The service was closed briefly to clean up the rings and their nefarious code.

https://www.theregister.com/2006/11/24/secondlife_greygoo_attack/

https://www.wired.com/2006/11/sonicstyle-grey/

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Grey_Goo

Nefarious. Hmmm. *looks at @Madelaine McMasters and wonders* 😊

 

Me?!

Do I look like I'd do that sort of thing?

[Silent Mistwalker]

9 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Me?!

Do I look like I'd do that sort of thing?

 

Nah. You're too busy setting everyone in SL on fire.

You would think by now people would know better than to sign a contract with Dad.

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

On 4/26/2022 at 7:21 PM, Rowan Amore said:

What's even more amazing is you can still buy it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski/dp/047009608X

And there's a second edition too: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Life-Official-Michael-Rymaszewski-dp-0470227753/dp/0470227753/

One of the comments on the page to said this....

Amazon Customer Comment

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2007 So was I! I read a newspaper article, and wanted to log in to this metaverse.

Long before Yuckerberg got the idea for the meta stuff!

[Eggy UwU]

it's so interesting to see how SL has shaped itself. i have only been on the grid for a few years, but even in this time-frame, it's still a big shift since the time i have been around.

[Daniel Voyager]

On 4/30/2022 at 6:01 PM, Igne Aurelia said:

it's so interesting to see how SL has shaped itself. i have only been on the grid for a few years, but even in this time-frame, it's still a big shift since the time i have been around.

You might find my Second Life History page interesting

[bigmoe Whitfield]

 well I got my book,  but the cd-rom is not with it,  trying to locate the cd-rom image so I can make me a cd and put it with it... oh the fun begins.