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User:Daniel Voyager

2016-01-01T15:42:26Z

Daniel Voyager:

== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

'''HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!'''

[[File:2016_002.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|My 2016 look]]

== About Me ==
Greetings, I’m Daniel Voyager and I started Second Life on 31st October 2006.

I started blogging on 17th December 2007 and I enjoy blogging all things Second Life, OpenSim and Project Sansar.

I transferred to the Main Grid in mid December 2008. I enjoy exploring, photography and volunteering in Second Life.

On 31st October 2016 marks my 10th anniversary (rezday) in Second Life and I can’t wait.

I’m looking forward to SL13B, VWBPE, BURN2, Bay City annual events and more during 2016.

== My Interests ==
* Enjoys blogging, exploring, mentoring, photography, beta testing and OpenSim
* Enjoys volunteering at big events: BURN2, SL Birthdays, SL conferences and Relay For Life and much more
* Likes new technology, social networking, sci-fi movies, tv programs and space

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008 to 2012)
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008 to 2012)
* Mental Mentors Officer (April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2009
* SL Wiki Reviewer 2009 (KB2Wiki Piloteer)
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* BURN2 Volunteer Greeter / Burn2 Press Pass 2010
* News writer for Brews News in SL in November 2010
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers & Resident Greeters (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Press Pass / SL8B Stage Manager (June 2011)
* BURN2 2011 Press Pass / Guide / Greeter / Stage Manager
* Reached 20, 000 SL Flickr snapshots (29th December 2011)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press (June 2012)
* BURN2 2012 News Blogger & Greeter (October 2012)
* One Billion Rising Press Member - 12th February 2013
* SL10B PR team, Blog Admin, Flickr/Google+ Admin, Greeter (March 2013 to July 2013)
* LEA Volunteer (January 2014+)
* One Billion Rising Volunteer (February 2014)
* VWBPE 2014 volunteer & blogger (April 2014)

== History of SL Rez Days ==
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL
* '''31st October 2013: Celebrated 7 years at Muddy's Music Cafe'''
* 31st October 2014 & 2015: Halloween adventures
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

== My SL Projects ==
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2014)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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2015-02-08T20:17:39Z

Daniel Voyager:

== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==
* Daniel Voyager
* SL Status: Active (logs in regularly)
* United Kingdom
* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Second Life (Main Grid) in Mid December 2008

== My Interests ==
* Enjoys blogging, exploring, mentoring, photography, beta testing and OpenSim
* Enjoys volunteering at big events: BURN2, SL Birthdays, SL conferences and Relay For Life and much more
* Likes new technology, social networking, sci-fi movies, tv programs and space

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008 to 2012)
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008 to 2012)
* Mental Mentors Officer (April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2009
* SL Wiki Reviewer 2009 (KB2Wiki Piloteer)
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* BURN2 Volunteer Greeter / Burn2 Press Pass 2010
* News writer for Brews News in SL in November 2010
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers & Resident Greeters (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Press Pass / SL8B Stage Manager (June 2011)
* BURN2 2011 Press Pass / Guide / Greeter / Stage Manager
* Reached 20, 000 SL Flickr snapshots (29th December 2011)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press (June 2012)
* BURN2 2012 News Blogger & Greeter (October 2012)
* One Billion Rising Press Member - 12th February 2013
* SL10B PR team, Blog Admin, Flickr/Google+ Admin, Greeter (March 2013 to July 2013)
* LEA Volunteer (January 2014+)
* One Billion Rising Volunteer (February 2014)
* VWBPE 2014 volunteer & blogger (April 2014)

== History of SL Rez Days ==
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL
* '''31st October 2013: Celebrated 7 years at Muddy's Music Cafe'''
* 31st October 2014: To be confirmed
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

== My SL Projects ==
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2014)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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2013-12-26T20:49:00Z

Daniel Voyager:

User:Daniel Voyager

2013-11-04T18:31:12Z

Daniel Voyager:

<div id="box">

== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==

[[File:September_look 2013.jpg|700px|thumb|right|Autumn 2013]]
[[File:DV_Bear_-_Version_3_001.jpg|700px|thumb|right|My Version 3 SL Bear]]

* Daniel Voyager
* SL Status: Active
* Lives in the United Kingdom
* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Second Life (Main Grid) in Mid December 2008
* Interested in blogging, photography, opensim grids, virtual worlds and technology
* Interedted in SL social networking and SL news
* Enjoys volunteering at big grid events, collecting Linden Bears. attending user group meetings and testing new things

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008-2011}
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008-2009)
* Mental Mentors Officer (As of April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2008
* SL Wiki Reviewer (KB2Wiki Piloteer) 2009
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* Burn2 Press Pass / Burn2 Volunteer (October 2010)
* News writer for Brews News in SL (November 2010)
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Stage Manager / SL8B Press Pass (June 2011)
* BURN2 Greeter / Guide / Stage Manager (October 2011)
* Manager of Resident Greeters (January 2012+)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press Manager (June 2012)
* SL10B Press Team, SL10B Greeter & SL10B Google+/Flickr Manager (2013)

== History of SL Rez Days ==
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL
* '''31st October 2013: Celebrated 7 years at Muddy's Music Cafe'''
* 31st October 2014: To be confirmed
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

== My SL Projects ==
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2013)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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User:Daniel Voyager

2013-09-25T22:08:42Z

Daniel Voyager:

<div id="box">

== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==

[[File:September_look 2013.jpg|700px|thumb|right|Autumn 2013]]
[[File:DV_Bear_-_Version_3_001.jpg|700px|thumb|right|My Version 3 SL Bear]]

* Daniel Voyager
* SL Status: Active
* Lives in the United Kingdom
* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Second Life (Main Grid) in Mid December 2008
* Interested in blogging, photography, opensim grids, virtual worlds and technology
* Interedted in SL social networking and SL news
* Enjoys volunteering at big grid events, collecting Linden Bears. attending user group meetings and testing new things

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008-2011}
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008-2009)
* Mental Mentors Officer (As of April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2008
* SL Wiki Reviewer (KB2Wiki Piloteer) 2009
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* Burn2 Press Pass / Burn2 Volunteer (October 2010)
* News writer for Brews News in SL (November 2010)
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Stage Manager / SL8B Press Pass (June 2011)
* BURN2 Greeter / Guide / Stage Manager (October 2011)
* Manager of Resident Greeters (January 2012+)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press Manager (June 2012)
* SL10B Press Team, SL10B Greeter & SL10B Google+/Flickr Manager (2013)

== History of SL Rez Days ==
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

== My SL Projects ==
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2013)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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User:Daniel Voyager

2013-09-25T22:07:22Z

Daniel Voyager:

<div id="box">

== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==

[[File:September_look 2013.jpg|700px|thumb|right|May 2013]]
[[File:DV_Bear_-_Version_3_001.jpg|700px|thumb|right|My Version 3 SL Bear]]

* Daniel Voyager
* SL Status: Active
* Lives in the United Kingdom
* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Second Life (Main Grid) in Mid December 2008
* Interested in blogging, photography, opensim grids, virtual worlds and technology
* Interedted in SL social networking and SL news
* Enjoys volunteering at big grid events, collecting Linden Bears. attending user group meetings and testing new things

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008-2011}
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008-2009)
* Mental Mentors Officer (As of April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2008
* SL Wiki Reviewer (KB2Wiki Piloteer) 2009
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* Burn2 Press Pass / Burn2 Volunteer (October 2010)
* News writer for Brews News in SL (November 2010)
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Stage Manager / SL8B Press Pass (June 2011)
* BURN2 Greeter / Guide / Stage Manager (October 2011)
* Manager of Resident Greeters (January 2012+)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press Manager (June 2012)
* SL10B Press Team, SL10B Greeter & SL10B Google+/Flickr Manager (2013)

== History of SL Rez Days ==
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

== My SL Projects ==
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2013)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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Daniel Voyager:

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== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==

[[File:September_look 2013.jpg|700px|thumb|right|May 2013]]
[[File:DV_Bear_-_Version_3_001.jpg|700px|thumb|right|My Version 3 SL Bear]]

* Daniel Voyager
* SL Status: Active
* Lives in the United Kingdom
* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Second Life (Main Grid) in Mid December 2008
* Interested in blogging, photography, opensim grids, virtual worlds and technology
* Interedted in SL social networking and SL news
* Enjoys volunteering at big grid events, collecting Linden Bears. attending user group meetings and testing new things

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008-2011}
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008-2009)
* Mental Mentors Officer (As of April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2008
* SL Wiki Reviewer (KB2Wiki Piloteer) 2009
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* Burn2 Press Pass / Burn2 Volunteer (October 2010)
* News writer for Brews News in SL (November 2010)
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Stage Manager / SL8B Press Pass (June 2011)
* BURN2 Greeter / Guide / Stage Manager (October 2011)
* Manager of Resident Greeters (January 2012+)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press Manager (June 2012)
* SL10B Press Team, SL10B Greeter & SL10B Google+/Flickr Manager (2013)

'''History of SL Rez Days'''
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL

== My Historical SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

'''My SL Projects'''
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2013)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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2013-09-25T22:02:07Z

Daniel Voyager:

History of Second Life

2013-09-25T21:58:01Z

Daniel Voyager: Added SLShare

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== The beginning of Second Life ==

[[Second Life]] (SL) evolved as an idea by founder and former [[Linden Lab]] CEO, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rosedale Philip Rosedale] (aka Philip Linden). He envisioned a vast green, continuous landscape, distributed across multiple servers — and went on to build it. While he dreamed of virtual worlds since his childhood, in 1994, Rosedale first thought of connecting computers via the Internet and creating a virtual world. In 1999, he founded Linden Lab (LL). [[User:Andrew Linden|Andrew Linden]] stated that Linden Lab started as a hardware company geared towards the research and development of {{Wikipedia|Haptic_technology|haptics}}. Although work was underway on a prototype called "[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rig The Rig], haptics were subsequently abandoned due to heavy patent concentration. The Linden Lab employees — commonly known as "Lindens" — needed a virtual world to go with their hardware, so in 2001 they started building "LindenWorld", as [[Second_Life_in_2002/News|described in an early news story]].

In this early state, LindenWorld wasn't open to the public, was very gun-focused (like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_game shooter game]) and its [[avatar]]s were made out of [[prim]]s (called [[Primitar]]s). This video shows how the world looked back then and how users could interact with it:<ref>The video is taken from the blog post "[http://replay.web.archive.org/20090210110603/http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/08/18/historical-movie-lindenworld-august-2001/ Historical Movie - LindenWorld August 2001]"</ref>

: {{KBvideo|uK3x3FNlleU|640|385|type=youtube}}

LindenWorld was renamed into Second Life: a 3D virtual world with user generated content, where users could interact with each other in realtime.

{{Quotation|"Originally, during the Alpha period, the grid was known as Lindenworld. As we were getting ready to launch the Beta, we decided we needed a name that would convey the expansiveness, involvement and complexity we hoped would characterize this world as it grew. We started by debating the merits of a 'place' name versus a 'descriptive' name. We believed a place name would give people a sense of destination, and possibly some added layer of meaning. And we thought a descriptive name would help people understand this new concept of a shared, 3D collaborative space.
"We had a lot of ideas for place names --- one of my favorites was Sansara, which was not only euphonic, but had an interesting meaning in the original Sanskrit, meaning roughly 'ever changing world'. Ultimately, though, we chose to go with a descriptive name, and looked at many derivatives of Terra, Viva, and life. We kept coming back to Life2, and then landed on Second Life as more interesting, more evocative and more what we hoped the world could become as it evolved and grew to be as big as life.
"And that's how it came about!" | Robin Linden, former VP of Marketing and Community Development<ref>Sadly, the old forum post isn't available anymore and the quote is retrieved from http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Linden_World</ref>}}

== 2002 ==

On March 13, the first [[Resident]], Steller Sunshine, joined Second Life. The public beta started seven months later in October, and early avatars looked like this:

: [[File:Sl_history_website_2002.jpg]]

The [[grid]] consisted of 16 [[region]]s, the first one being called [http://slurl.com/secondlife/Da%20Boom/128/128/2 Da Boom], which Residents have speculated serves as a symbolic reference to the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang]" conception of this virtual world. Da Boom, as well as the other early region additions were all named after alleyways in San Francisco. This was a nod to Linden Lab's original location on Linden Street. The original San francisco regions, from November of 2002, included [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77864,+-122.40341 Clara], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Clyde+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA Clyde], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.782533,+-122.392261 Da Boom], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.783645,+-122.391832 Federal], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.778378,+-122.397529 Freelon], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.78514,+-122.39844 Hawthorne], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.781159,+-122.407368 Minna], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.780854,+-122.406820 Natoma], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.78033,+-122.39567 Ritch], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77908,+-122.40385 Shipley], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.780820,+-122.391891 Stanford], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stillman+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA Stillman], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Taber+Alley,+San+Francisco,+CA Taber], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Varney+Place,+San+Francisco,+CA Varney], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77956,+-122.39697 Welsh], and [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77994,+-122.39611 Zoe].

: [[Image:Agni 2002-11-21.jpg|800px]]

Second Life closed beta started in November 2002 and lasted until April 2003 when public beta started. Read more about [http://secondlife-online.com/content/site-beta.php History of SL Beta].

== 2003 ==

While population and land slowly grew, Linden Lab released Second Life in June 2003. As shocking as it may seem in hindsight, back then, SL had neither a currency nor were Residents able to teleport. It was in the end of 2003 when the [[Linden Dollar]] was introduced, and the [[LindeX]] currency exchange followed about two years later.<ref>[[History of Second Life/LindeX Chatlog|See chat log]] with {{User2|Peter Millionsofus}} (formerly Lawrence Linden).</ref>

In order to restrict [[simulator]] resource usage, a tax system was introduced which required every Resident to pay a weekly fee, depending on the prims they had [[rez]]zed inworld. This system was easy to trick by packing all prims into the [[inventory]] on payment due day, then re-rezzing them again a day later.<ref>See the Google video "[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5182759758975402950 Glimpse inside a Metaverse: The virtual world Second Life]"</ref>

The first Second Life trailer was shown in 2003:

: {{KBvideo|KHH2CAE9Y6o|640|385|type=youtube}}

The [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/aLife-and-sLife/ba-p/519632 first Linden official blog post] was made by Philip Linden on October 4, 2004 on the first Official Second Life Blog.

The first [[Telehub]]s were introduced in Version 1.1.0, with the feature of paying to teleport from one Telehub to another.

While in the beginning, Second Life's business model was primarily based on paid memberships (which later evolved into Premium and Basic accounts), the focus soon shifted to land sales. Residents became able to acquire and rent land, which in turn also became a business model for some entrepreneurial Residents.

== 2005 ==

Teen Second Life was started in 2005. [[#Teen Second Life|See "Teen Second Life" below.]]

In March 2005 Second Life version 1.6 was rolled out bringing with it a number of features including QuickTime media streaming and a standard Second Life building interface.

In late 2005, Linden Lab removed most Telehubs on the grid, opening the way for "direct teleport" from one point to another. Previously, after teleporting, Residents had to fly from a Telehub to their specific destination. The Telehubs were mostly converted into [[Infohub]]s, meant to be community gathering spaces and "welcome areas" for new Residents.

== 2006 ==

On May 1, Resident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshe_Chung Anshe Chung] was featured on the cover of the U.S. magazine BusinessWorld, reported to be the first person becoming a real-life millionaire due to Second Life business. This story brought great media coverage and pitched the population growth further.

On October 18 at precisely 8:05:45 PST, the 1,000,000th Resident joined Second Life. A special [[Linden Bear]] was created to celebrate this milestone.

: [[File:1000000 Residents.png|160px]]

== 2007 ==

The client was [[Source_downloads|open-sourced]] in January<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Embracing-the-Inevitable/ba-p/548113</ref>, and Residents were asked to take part in the [[Architecture Working Group]] (AWG) to influence its development. The AWG had its first meeting on [[AWG Meeting_1|September 13, 2007]].

On April 13, Linden Lab announced the eventual removal of the profile rating system<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Removal-of-Ratings-in-Beta/ba-p/572661</ref>, which was used for social reputation but also prone to being abused and misunderstood.

On May 21, the [[WindLight]] atmospheric rendering was announced<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/WindLight-atmospheric-rendering-comes-to-Second-Life/ba-p/577091</ref> and became part of the main release in Viewer version [[Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/1.19.1|1.19.1]] on April 2.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/The-Dawning-of-a-New-Viewer-Second-Life-1-19-1-Now-Available/ba-p/617737</ref> WindLight improved Second Life's graphics dramatically.

: {{KBvideo|h4BMmq4dono|640|385|type=youtube}}

On August 2nd, Linden Lab released its new main viewer (V1.18.1-2) with in-world voice chat capabilities.

== 2008 ==

On February 22, Blue Linden announced that there would be a new set of city-style themed regions named [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Bay_City Bay City]. Bay City opened for viewing on May 8, 2008, and on May 24, 2009, Bay City content was released to Residents as templates for their own creations.

Philip Rosedale announced his stepping down as CEO in mid-March<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Changing-my-Job/ba-p/614913</ref>, and introduced new CEO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_D._Kingdon Mark D. Kingdon] (M Linden) one month later.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Announcing-our-New-CEO/ba-p/624302</ref>. Philip continued to serve as Chairman on the [http://lindenlab.com/about/management Board of Directors].

The first cross-grid teleport to an OpenSim grid was achieved on June 30, [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/IBM-and-Linden-Lab-Interoperability-Announcement/bc-p/634538 announced on July 8], and shortly after on July 31, the [[Open Grid Public Beta]] began.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Open-Grid-Public-Beta-begins-today/ba-p/637169</ref>

Scripting performance enhancer [[Mono]] was launched in August, as part of the [[Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/1.24|1.24 Server]] deploy<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Mono-Launch/ba-p/637718</ref>

== 2009 ==

On January 20, Linden Lab announced that it acquired the SL online marketplaces OnRez and XStreet SL (formerly SL Exchange) in order to merge and integrate them into a web shopping service for virtual goods that would become the [http://marketplace.secondlife.com Second Life Marketplace].<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/XStreet-SL-and-OnRez-to-Join-Linden-Lab/ba-p/639820</ref>

In March, Linden Lab started a project to create [[Zindra]], a new continent specifically designed for [[Adult]] content. Changes to [[Maturity ratings]] policies went live on September 15, and Zindra came online in October.

In August, former VP of Product Tom Hale (T Linden) gave a tour of the new [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7pGtebYy4 Second Life 2.0 Viewer] due to be launched in 2010. Earlier in June 2009, [http://www.massively.com/2009/06/12/second-life-2-0-a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-user-interface/ Massively posted a sneak preview].

== 2010 ==

On January 29, Linden Lab [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Avatars-Unite/ba-p/654212 acquired Avatars United]. Avatars United was a social network for users of multiple virtual worlds to connect.

On February 9, Linden Lab launched the new Second Life Forums<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Community-General/New-Forums-Launched/ba-p/654922</ref>, powered by Jive Clearspace software. The old vBulletin-based forums were archived.

On February 23, Linden Lab announced the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Second-Life-Viewer-2-Beta-Now-Available/bc-p/655593 new Second Life Viewer 2.0 Public Beta]. Viewer 2 [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Unveiling-An-Improved-New-Resident-Experience/ba-p/657072 went out of beta and was launched as the main Viewer] on March 31.

On June 24, Mark Kingdon [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linden-lab-announces-management-changes-97074779.html stepped down as CEO of Linden Lab]. Philip Rosedale was named interim CEO, and CFO Bob Komin (BK Linden) assumed the additional role of COO.

On July 22, Philip Linden announced [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Changes-to-Burning-Life/ba-p/659136 that Burning Life will be renamed to BURN 2.0]. [http://www.burn2.org burn2.org] became the website for news and information about this unique community event.

On September 23, Linden Lab announced that [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Saying-Farewell-to-Avatars-United/ba-p/666569 Avatars United will be shut down on September 29, 2010.]

On October 13, Jack Linden announced "[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Mesh-Import-Open-Beta-Starts-Today/ba-p/668752 Mesh Import Beta Starts Today]" on the preview/test grid called [[Aditi]].

On December 23, BK Linden announced that [http://lindenlab.com/pressroom/releases/12_23_10 Rod Humble (Rodvik Linden) became the new CEO of Linden Lab].

== 2011 ==

On March 3rd, Linden Lab launched the new [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Welcome-to-the-New-Second-Life-Community-Platform/ba-p/704195 Second Life Community Platform], powered by [http://lithosphere.lithium.com/ Lithium]. "The new platform integrates Blogs, Forums, Answers, and the Knowledge Base."

On March 29th, Linden Lab introduced the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Launching-the-SL-Viewer-with-Basic-and-Advanced-Modes/ba-p/783655 Basic mode] in Viewer 2 to improve new Resident experience in Second Life. The previous user interface is now the "Advanced mode".

: [[File:Basic_mode.png|640px]]

On June 2nd, at 4pm PT Linden Lab performed a load test for [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/GroupChatTest Group Chat] on the ADITI Beta grid. Many participants attended to test out group chat in Oatmeal and GC Test regions.

On July 26th, Linden Lab launched the new social web profiles.

On August 23rd, [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Mesh-goes-gridwide-Create-sell-buy-amp-enjoy-all-new-things-in/bc-p/1056053 Mesh went gridwide] and now all Second Life residents can benefit from the new Mesh technology.

== 2012 ==

On February 16th, Linden Lab announced details about [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Take-a-Sneak-Peek-at-the-Pathfinding-Experiments-Being-Conducted/ba-p/1386511 Pathfinding alpha] and that pathfinding experiments were being conducted in Second Life. As of April 19th the Pathfinding Viewer tools are now in beta.

On April 16th, Linden Lab announced that [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Help-Us-Celebrate-Second-Life-s-9th-Birthday/ba-p/1488731 Second Life’s 9th Birthday] will now focus on the spotlight on community events around the grid.

On June 29th, Linden Lab announced [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Project-Shining-to-Improve-Avatar-and-Object-Streaming-Speeds/ba-p/1583465 Project Shining]to improve Avatar and Object Streaming Speeds in Second Life.

== 2013 ==

On February 20th, Linden Lab added [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Fresh-Spring-Login-Pages/ba-p/1899449 new Spring-themed login pages] on the official Second Life homepage.

On April 4th, Linden Lab launched the new [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/A-Shiny-New-Communications-Hub-for-the-Second-Life-Viewer/ba-p/1957779 Communications Hub User Interface (CHUI)].

On April 8th, Linden Lab announced a [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Materials-Project-Viewer-Now-Available/ba-p/1962691 new Materials Project Viewer]for alpha testing of Normal and Specular maps on Second Life objects.

On May 29th, Linden Lab announced faster avatar loading changes with Project Shining.

On 23rd June 2013, Second Life officially turned ten years old.

On 25th September 2013, Linden Lab announces [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Introducing-SLShare-an-Easy-Way-to-Share-to-Facebook-While/ba-p/2220951 SLShare] which offers a 100% Opt-In way to share status updates, upload photos and check-in to locations in Second Life, to Facebook.

== Teen Second Life ==

On February 13, 2005, Linden Lab offered "amnesty" for underaged Residents, in case they'd want to be beta testers for the new [[Teen Second Life]] (TSL) service. Before this time, Second Life was only open for Residents 18 years and older; being 17 or younger resulted in a ban. The Residents were transferred to TSL, also known as the "Teen Grid" (TG), which was exclusively for teens — with the exception of approved adults like school teachers — and no communication with the [[Main Grid]] (MG) was possible. The Teen Grid was only open during Linden-desginated staffing hours. Also, during the first few months of [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=28438 TG Beta], access was restricted to those that were given an invite by an existing Resident or Linden Lab. Teens counted down to [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=27618 1000 Residents on December 21, 2005].

Teen Second Life (Teen Grid) was open from February 14, 2005 and closed on January 21, 2011.

* On January 1, 2006, the [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=46258 Teen Second Life (aka Teen Grid) opened 24/7].
* In March 2006, Global Kids was the first educational organization to enter TSL, opening an island.
* On December 24, 2006, [http://infoisland.org/2006/12/24/eye4you-alliance-teen-island-opens/ Eye4You Alliance Island was opened] in TSL. [http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/ Eye4you Alliance island closed] on July 12, 2009.
* As of January, 2007, Linden Lab started hosting [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Office_Hours/TG TG Office Hours].
* On March 17, 2007, Blue and Philip Linden hosted a townhall meeting on Global Kids island about the [http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/03/sl_blue_and_philip_linden_pres.html past, present, and future of TSL].
* During 2007, there was problems for teens registering outside of the US [http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-734 because of a server issue]. After January 2009, this issue was fixed.
* On June 25th, 2008, at 2 PM Pacific, [[Torley Linden]] came to do an hour-long special [http://torley.com/oldblog/qa-session-transcript-with-vteam-teen-mentors TSL Q&A session] with Teen Residents at TG Multimedia Stage.
* On July 3rd, 2008, M Linden came to the Teen Grid and hosted a [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL5B/MTSL TSL special speech] about Second Life's 5th Birthday.
* In early 2009, the TSL Mentors 2.0 program was shut down by Linden Lab.
* As of 2009, TSL had around 50,000 registered accounts and over 200-300 concurrent online Residents. There were 203 Teen Grid regions; however only around 130 are open publicly to Teens.
* For Second Life's 6th Birthday in 2009, SL6B Teen region was moved over to the Main Grid, and was attached to the SL6B regions. This year's SL6B theme was "The Future of Virtual Worlds".
* As of 2010, the Teen Grid had 93 Mainland regions, 7 Resident-owned estates, and 97 educational/project estates. At any given time, there were around 2,000 teens who were active over the last 30 days. The usual TSL concurrency is about 350 Residents.
* In February 2010, the TSL forums were integrated into the new Second Life Forums. Teens and Adults now shared forums.
* On March 16, 2010, "[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Community-General/Green-Fun-on-the-Teen-Grid/ba-p/656891 Green Fun]" was had.
* On August 14, 2010, Philip Linden announced the forthcoming closure of TSL.
* On August 20, 2010, Terrence Linden announced that the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/The-Future-of-Teens-and-Second-Life/ba-p/661576 Teen Grid will be shut down on December 31, 2010].
* On December 29, 2010, Global Kids [http://www.olpglobalkids.org/2010/12/teens_express_concerns_hopes_a.html hosted a Youth Forum on the Teen Grid Merger inworld].
* On January 21, 2011, after 1 PM Pacific [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Teens-Welcome-to-Second-Life/ba-p/674615 TSL merged with the Main Grid].

== References ==
<references />

== Learn more ==

Beyond the highlights above, further details about Second Life's history can be found in the [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Culture|Culture]], and [[:Category:Second Life Birthday|SL Birthday]] categories.

* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life "Second Life" entry]''' - From Wikipedia.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/07/10/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life-2008-2010-and/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life, 2008-2010 and beyond]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/07/03/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life-the-middle-ye/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life, the middle years]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/06/26/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2009/12/30/second-life-2009-the-year-in-review/ Second Life 2009: The Year in review]'''
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/LindenWorld LindenWorld]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com, contains some cool pictures.
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Misc_History_Articles Misc History Articles]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com.
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Firsts Historical Firsts]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com.

[[Category:Culture]] [[Category:History]] [[Category:Second Life Birthday]]

History of Second Life

2013-06-25T13:05:10Z

Daniel Voyager:

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== The beginning of Second Life ==

[[Second Life]] (SL) evolved as an idea by founder and former [[Linden Lab]] CEO, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rosedale Philip Rosedale] (aka Philip Linden). He envisioned a vast green, continuous landscape, distributed across multiple servers — and went on to build it. While he dreamed of virtual worlds since his childhood, in 1994, Rosedale first thought of connecting computers via the Internet and creating a virtual world. In 1999, he founded Linden Lab (LL). [[User:Andrew Linden|Andrew Linden]] stated that Linden Lab started as a hardware company geared towards the research and development of {{Wikipedia|Haptic_technology|haptics}}. Although work was underway on a prototype called "[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rig The Rig], haptics were subsequently abandoned due to heavy patent concentration. The Linden Lab employees — commonly known as "Lindens" — needed a virtual world to go with their hardware, so in 2001 they started building "LindenWorld", as [[Second_Life_in_2002/News|described in an early news story]].

In this early state, LindenWorld wasn't open to the public, was very gun-focused (like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_game shooter game]) and its [[avatar]]s were made out of [[prim]]s (called [[Primitar]]s). This video shows how the world looked back then and how users could interact with it:<ref>The video is taken from the blog post "[http://replay.web.archive.org/20090210110603/http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/08/18/historical-movie-lindenworld-august-2001/ Historical Movie - LindenWorld August 2001]"</ref>

: {{KBvideo|uK3x3FNlleU|640|385|type=youtube}}

LindenWorld was renamed into Second Life: a 3D virtual world with user generated content, where users could interact with each other in realtime.

{{Quotation|"Originally, during the Alpha period, the grid was known as Lindenworld. As we were getting ready to launch the Beta, we decided we needed a name that would convey the expansiveness, involvement and complexity we hoped would characterize this world as it grew. We started by debating the merits of a 'place' name versus a 'descriptive' name. We believed a place name would give people a sense of destination, and possibly some added layer of meaning. And we thought a descriptive name would help people understand this new concept of a shared, 3D collaborative space.
"We had a lot of ideas for place names --- one of my favorites was Sansara, which was not only euphonic, but had an interesting meaning in the original Sanskrit, meaning roughly 'ever changing world'. Ultimately, though, we chose to go with a descriptive name, and looked at many derivatives of Terra, Viva, and life. We kept coming back to Life2, and then landed on Second Life as more interesting, more evocative and more what we hoped the world could become as it evolved and grew to be as big as life.
"And that's how it came about!" | Robin Linden, former VP of Marketing and Community Development<ref>Sadly, the old forum post isn't available anymore and the quote is retrieved from http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Linden_World</ref>}}

== 2002 ==

On March 13, the first [[Resident]], Steller Sunshine, joined Second Life. The public beta started seven months later in October, and early avatars looked like this:

: [[File:Sl_history_website_2002.jpg]]

The [[grid]] consisted of 16 [[region]]s, the first one being called [http://slurl.com/secondlife/Da%20Boom/128/128/2 Da Boom], which Residents have speculated serves as a symbolic reference to the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang]" conception of this virtual world. Da Boom, as well as the other early region additions were all named after alleyways in San Francisco. This was a nod to Linden Lab's original location on Linden Street. The original San francisco regions, from November of 2002, included [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77864,+-122.40341 Clara], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Clyde+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA Clyde], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.782533,+-122.392261 Da Boom], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.783645,+-122.391832 Federal], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.778378,+-122.397529 Freelon], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.78514,+-122.39844 Hawthorne], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.781159,+-122.407368 Minna], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.780854,+-122.406820 Natoma], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.78033,+-122.39567 Ritch], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77908,+-122.40385 Shipley], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.780820,+-122.391891 Stanford], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stillman+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA Stillman], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Taber+Alley,+San+Francisco,+CA Taber], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Varney+Place,+San+Francisco,+CA Varney], [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77956,+-122.39697 Welsh], and [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.77994,+-122.39611 Zoe].

: [[Image:Agni 2002-11-21.jpg|800px]]

Second Life closed beta started in November 2002 and lasted until April 2003 when public beta started. Read more about [http://secondlife-online.com/content/site-beta.php History of SL Beta].

== 2003 ==

While population and land slowly grew, Linden Lab released Second Life in June 2003. As shocking as it may seem in hindsight, back then, SL had neither a currency nor were Residents able to teleport. It was in the end of 2003 when the [[Linden Dollar]] was introduced, and the [[LindeX]] currency exchange followed about two years later.<ref>[[History of Second Life/LindeX Chatlog|See chat log]] with {{User2|Peter Millionsofus}} (formerly Lawrence Linden).</ref>

In order to restrict [[simulator]] resource usage, a tax system was introduced which required every Resident to pay a weekly fee, depending on the prims they had [[rez]]zed inworld. This system was easy to trick by packing all prims into the [[inventory]] on payment due day, then re-rezzing them again a day later.<ref>See the Google video "[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5182759758975402950 Glimpse inside a Metaverse: The virtual world Second Life]"</ref>

The first Second Life trailer was shown in 2003:

: {{KBvideo|KHH2CAE9Y6o|640|385|type=youtube}}

The [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/aLife-and-sLife/ba-p/519632 first Linden official blog post] was made by Philip Linden on October 4, 2004 on the first Official Second Life Blog.

The first [[Telehub]]s were introduced in Version 1.1.0, with the feature of paying to teleport from one Telehub to another.

While in the beginning, Second Life's business model was primarily based on paid memberships (which later evolved into Premium and Basic accounts), the focus soon shifted to land sales. Residents became able to acquire and rent land, which in turn also became a business model for some entrepreneurial Residents.

== 2005 ==

Teen Second Life was started in 2005. [[#Teen Second Life|See "Teen Second Life" below.]]

In March 2005 Second Life version 1.6 was rolled out bringing with it a number of features including QuickTime media streaming and a standard Second Life building interface.

In late 2005, Linden Lab removed most Telehubs on the grid, opening the way for "direct teleport" from one point to another. Previously, after teleporting, Residents had to fly from a Telehub to their specific destination. The Telehubs were mostly converted into [[Infohub]]s, meant to be community gathering spaces and "welcome areas" for new Residents.

== 2006 ==

On May 1, Resident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshe_Chung Anshe Chung] was featured on the cover of the U.S. magazine BusinessWorld, reported to be the first person becoming a real-life millionaire due to Second Life business. This story brought great media coverage and pitched the population growth further.

On October 18 at precisely 8:05:45 PST, the 1,000,000th Resident joined Second Life. A special [[Linden Bear]] was created to celebrate this milestone.

: [[File:1000000 Residents.png|160px]]

== 2007 ==

The client was [[Source_downloads|open-sourced]] in January<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Embracing-the-Inevitable/ba-p/548113</ref>, and Residents were asked to take part in the [[Architecture Working Group]] (AWG) to influence its development. The AWG had its first meeting on [[AWG Meeting_1|September 13, 2007]].

On April 13, Linden Lab announced the eventual removal of the profile rating system<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Removal-of-Ratings-in-Beta/ba-p/572661</ref>, which was used for social reputation but also prone to being abused and misunderstood.

On May 21, the [[WindLight]] atmospheric rendering was announced<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/WindLight-atmospheric-rendering-comes-to-Second-Life/ba-p/577091</ref> and became part of the main release in Viewer version [[Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/1.19.1|1.19.1]] on April 2.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/The-Dawning-of-a-New-Viewer-Second-Life-1-19-1-Now-Available/ba-p/617737</ref> WindLight improved Second Life's graphics dramatically.

: {{KBvideo|h4BMmq4dono|640|385|type=youtube}}

On August 2nd, Linden Lab released its new main viewer (V1.18.1-2) with in-world voice chat capabilities.

== 2008 ==

On February 22, Blue Linden announced that there would be a new set of city-style themed regions named [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Bay_City Bay City]. Bay City opened for viewing on May 8, 2008, and on May 24, 2009, Bay City content was released to Residents as templates for their own creations.

Philip Rosedale announced his stepping down as CEO in mid-March<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Changing-my-Job/ba-p/614913</ref>, and introduced new CEO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_D._Kingdon Mark D. Kingdon] (M Linden) one month later.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Announcing-our-New-CEO/ba-p/624302</ref>. Philip continued to serve as Chairman on the [http://lindenlab.com/about/management Board of Directors].

The first cross-grid teleport to an OpenSim grid was achieved on June 30, [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/IBM-and-Linden-Lab-Interoperability-Announcement/bc-p/634538 announced on July 8], and shortly after on July 31, the [[Open Grid Public Beta]] began.<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Open-Grid-Public-Beta-begins-today/ba-p/637169</ref>

Scripting performance enhancer [[Mono]] was launched in August, as part of the [[Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/1.24|1.24 Server]] deploy<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Mono-Launch/ba-p/637718</ref>

== 2009 ==

On January 20, Linden Lab announced that it acquired the SL online marketplaces OnRez and XStreet SL (formerly SL Exchange) in order to merge and integrate them into a web shopping service for virtual goods that would become the [http://marketplace.secondlife.com Second Life Marketplace].<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/XStreet-SL-and-OnRez-to-Join-Linden-Lab/ba-p/639820</ref>

In March, Linden Lab started a project to create [[Zindra]], a new continent specifically designed for [[Adult]] content. Changes to [[Maturity ratings]] policies went live on September 15, and Zindra came online in October.

In August, former VP of Product Tom Hale (T Linden) gave a tour of the new [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7pGtebYy4 Second Life 2.0 Viewer] due to be launched in 2010. Earlier in June 2009, [http://www.massively.com/2009/06/12/second-life-2-0-a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-user-interface/ Massively posted a sneak preview].

== 2010 ==

On January 29, Linden Lab [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Avatars-Unite/ba-p/654212 acquired Avatars United]. Avatars United was a social network for users of multiple virtual worlds to connect.

On February 9, Linden Lab launched the new Second Life Forums<ref>http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Community-General/New-Forums-Launched/ba-p/654922</ref>, powered by Jive Clearspace software. The old vBulletin-based forums were archived.

On February 23, Linden Lab announced the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Second-Life-Viewer-2-Beta-Now-Available/bc-p/655593 new Second Life Viewer 2.0 Public Beta]. Viewer 2 [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Unveiling-An-Improved-New-Resident-Experience/ba-p/657072 went out of beta and was launched as the main Viewer] on March 31.

On June 24, Mark Kingdon [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linden-lab-announces-management-changes-97074779.html stepped down as CEO of Linden Lab]. Philip Rosedale was named interim CEO, and CFO Bob Komin (BK Linden) assumed the additional role of COO.

On July 22, Philip Linden announced [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Changes-to-Burning-Life/ba-p/659136 that Burning Life will be renamed to BURN 2.0]. [http://www.burn2.org burn2.org] became the website for news and information about this unique community event.

On September 23, Linden Lab announced that [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Saying-Farewell-to-Avatars-United/ba-p/666569 Avatars United will be shut down on September 29, 2010.]

On October 13, Jack Linden announced "[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Mesh-Import-Open-Beta-Starts-Today/ba-p/668752 Mesh Import Beta Starts Today]" on the preview/test grid called [[Aditi]].

On December 23, BK Linden announced that [http://lindenlab.com/pressroom/releases/12_23_10 Rod Humble (Rodvik Linden) became the new CEO of Linden Lab].

== 2011 ==

On March 3rd, Linden Lab launched the new [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Welcome-to-the-New-Second-Life-Community-Platform/ba-p/704195 Second Life Community Platform], powered by [http://lithosphere.lithium.com/ Lithium]. "The new platform integrates Blogs, Forums, Answers, and the Knowledge Base."

On March 29th, Linden Lab introduced the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Launching-the-SL-Viewer-with-Basic-and-Advanced-Modes/ba-p/783655 Basic mode] in Viewer 2 to improve new Resident experience in Second Life. The previous user interface is now the "Advanced mode".

: [[File:Basic_mode.png|640px]]

On June 2nd, at 4pm PT Linden Lab performed a load test for [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/GroupChatTest Group Chat] on the ADITI Beta grid. Many participants attended to test out group chat in Oatmeal and GC Test regions.

On July 26th, Linden Lab launched the new social web profiles.

On August 23rd, [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Mesh-goes-gridwide-Create-sell-buy-amp-enjoy-all-new-things-in/bc-p/1056053 Mesh went gridwide] and now all Second Life residents can benefit from the new Mesh technology.

== 2012 ==

On February 16th, Linden Lab announced details about [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Take-a-Sneak-Peek-at-the-Pathfinding-Experiments-Being-Conducted/ba-p/1386511 Pathfinding alpha] and that pathfinding experiments were being conducted in Second Life. As of April 19th the Pathfinding Viewer tools are now in beta.

On April 16th, Linden Lab announced that [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Help-Us-Celebrate-Second-Life-s-9th-Birthday/ba-p/1488731 Second Life’s 9th Birthday] will now focus on the spotlight on community events around the grid.

On June 29th, Linden Lab announced [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Project-Shining-to-Improve-Avatar-and-Object-Streaming-Speeds/ba-p/1583465 Project Shining]to improve Avatar and Object Streaming Speeds in Second Life.

== 2013 ==

On February 20th, Linden Lab added [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Fresh-Spring-Login-Pages/ba-p/1899449 new Spring-themed login pages] on the official Second Life homepage.

On April 4th, Linden Lab launched the new [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/A-Shiny-New-Communications-Hub-for-the-Second-Life-Viewer/ba-p/1957779 Communications Hub User Interface (CHUI)].

On April 8th, Linden Lab announced a [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Tools-and-Technology/Materials-Project-Viewer-Now-Available/ba-p/1962691 new Materials Project Viewer]for alpha testing of Normal and Specular maps on Second Life objects.

On May 29th, Linden Lab announced faster avatar loading changes with Project Shining].

On 23rd June 2013 Second Life officially turned ten years old.

== Teen Second Life ==

On February 13, 2005, Linden Lab offered "amnesty" for underaged Residents, in case they'd want to be beta testers for the new [[Teen Second Life]] (TSL) service. Before this time, Second Life was only open for Residents 18 years and older; being 17 or younger resulted in a ban. The Residents were transferred to TSL, also known as the "Teen Grid" (TG), which was exclusively for teens — with the exception of approved adults like school teachers — and no communication with the [[Main Grid]] (MG) was possible. The Teen Grid was only open during Linden-desginated staffing hours. Also, during the first few months of [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=28438 TG Beta], access was restricted to those that were given an invite by an existing Resident or Linden Lab. Teens counted down to [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=27618 1000 Residents on December 21, 2005].

Teen Second Life (Teen Grid) was open from February 14, 2005 and closed on January 21, 2011.

* On January 1, 2006, the [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=46258 Teen Second Life (aka Teen Grid) opened 24/7].
* In March 2006, Global Kids was the first educational organization to enter TSL, opening an island.
* On December 24, 2006, [http://infoisland.org/2006/12/24/eye4you-alliance-teen-island-opens/ Eye4You Alliance Island was opened] in TSL. [http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/ Eye4you Alliance island closed] on July 12, 2009.
* As of January, 2007, Linden Lab started hosting [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Office_Hours/TG TG Office Hours].
* On March 17, 2007, Blue and Philip Linden hosted a townhall meeting on Global Kids island about the [http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/03/sl_blue_and_philip_linden_pres.html past, present, and future of TSL].
* During 2007, there was problems for teens registering outside of the US [http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-734 because of a server issue]. After January 2009, this issue was fixed.
* On June 25th, 2008, at 2 PM Pacific, [[Torley Linden]] came to do an hour-long special [http://torley.com/oldblog/qa-session-transcript-with-vteam-teen-mentors TSL Q&A session] with Teen Residents at TG Multimedia Stage.
* On July 3rd, 2008, M Linden came to the Teen Grid and hosted a [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL5B/MTSL TSL special speech] about Second Life's 5th Birthday.
* In early 2009, the TSL Mentors 2.0 program was shut down by Linden Lab.
* As of 2009, TSL had around 50,000 registered accounts and over 200-300 concurrent online Residents. There were 203 Teen Grid regions; however only around 130 are open publicly to Teens.
* For Second Life's 6th Birthday in 2009, SL6B Teen region was moved over to the Main Grid, and was attached to the SL6B regions. This year's SL6B theme was "The Future of Virtual Worlds".
* As of 2010, the Teen Grid had 93 Mainland regions, 7 Resident-owned estates, and 97 educational/project estates. At any given time, there were around 2,000 teens who were active over the last 30 days. The usual TSL concurrency is about 350 Residents.
* In February 2010, the TSL forums were integrated into the new Second Life Forums. Teens and Adults now shared forums.
* On March 16, 2010, "[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Community-General/Green-Fun-on-the-Teen-Grid/ba-p/656891 Green Fun]" was had.
* On August 14, 2010, Philip Linden announced the forthcoming closure of TSL.
* On August 20, 2010, Terrence Linden announced that the [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/The-Future-of-Teens-and-Second-Life/ba-p/661576 Teen Grid will be shut down on December 31, 2010].
* On December 29, 2010, Global Kids [http://www.olpglobalkids.org/2010/12/teens_express_concerns_hopes_a.html hosted a Youth Forum on the Teen Grid Merger inworld].
* On January 21, 2011, after 1 PM Pacific [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Teens-Welcome-to-Second-Life/ba-p/674615 TSL merged with the Main Grid].

== References ==
<references />

== Learn more ==

Beyond the highlights above, further details about Second Life's history can be found in the [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Culture|Culture]], and [[:Category:Second Life Birthday|SL Birthday]] categories.

* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life "Second Life" entry]''' - From Wikipedia.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/07/10/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life-2008-2010-and/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life, 2008-2010 and beyond]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/07/03/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life-the-middle-ye/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life, the middle years]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2010/06/26/the-virtual-whirl-a-brief-history-of-second-life/ The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life]''' - From Massively.
* '''[http://www.massively.com/2009/12/30/second-life-2009-the-year-in-review/ Second Life 2009: The Year in review]'''
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/LindenWorld LindenWorld]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com, contains some cool pictures.
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Misc_History_Articles Misc History Articles]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com.
* '''[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Firsts Historical Firsts]''' - From secondlife.wikia.com.

[[Category:Culture]] [[Category:History]] [[Category:Second Life Birthday]]

User:Daniel Voyager

2013-05-30T15:58:58Z

Daniel Voyager:

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== My Blog ==
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com '''My SL Blog''']

== About Me ==

[[File:Hairy Hippo Fun Land 012.jpg|500px|thumb|right|May 2013]]
[[File:DV_Bear_-_Version_3_001.jpg|500px|thumb|right|My Version 3 SL Bear]]

* Joined Teen Second Life on 31st October 2006
* Transferred to Main Grid during Mid December 2008
* Enjoys blogging about Second Life, photography, exploring and volunteering
* SL News Press 2013

== Second Life Experience ==
* Manager of Clearwater Beach (2008-2011}
* Manager of Metaverse Mentors (2008-2009)
* Mental Mentors Officer (As of April 2010)
* Officer of Second Life Ex-Mentor
* WTM Volunteer & Mental Mentor Volunteer
* Mental Mentor Officer 2008
* SL Wiki Reviewer (KB2Wiki Piloteer) 2009
* Stage Manager at Burning Life 2009
* Official SL Mentor (December 2008-December 2009)
* Resident judge for Vetting Committee for Linden Prize 2010
* SL7B Greeter & SL7B Pass Press Member in June 2010
* Became part of the official SLCC 2010 Twitter team
* Burn2 Press Pass / Burn2 Volunteer (October 2010)
* News writer for Brews News in SL (November 2010)
* Manager of SL Discovery Explorers (2011+)
* SL8B Greeter / SL8B Stage Manager / SL8B Press Pass (June 2011)
* BURN2 Greeter / Guide / Stage Manager (October 2011)
* Manager of Resident Greeters (January 2012+)
* SL9B Flickr Admin, SL9B Greeter & SL9B Press Manager (June 2012)
* SL10B Press Team, SL10B Greeter & SL10B Google+/Flickr Manager (2013)

'''SL Rez Days'''
* 31st October 2007: Party underground celebrating 1st Rez Day
* 31st October 2008: Explored the mainland for my 2nd Rez Day
* 31st October 2009: 3 hours of live music for my 3rd Rez Day
* 31st October 2010: Explored cool SL Halloween places for my 4th Rez Day
* 31st October 2011: Exploring scary halloween places
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=31846520@N00&q=rez+day&m=text '''My Rez Day Snapshots''']
* 31st October 2012: Got 6th rezday bear from LL

== My SL Milestones ==
* I created my wiki page on '''December 29, 2007''' at 12:09pm PDT = (86 bytes)
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/200-days-on-the-main-grid/ 200 days on MG]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/1000-days-old-in-second-life/ 1000 days old in Second Life]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/1-000-channel-views/ 1, 000 channel views on my SL YouTube page]
* Reached the 8, 000 views milestone on my SL Wiki page during first week of August 2009
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/sl-feeds-no-1-on-google-search-results/ SL Feeds at No.1 on Google search results]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/1kflickrfriends/ 1, 000+ SL Flickr friends]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/600-days-on-the-main-grid/ 600 days on the Main Grid]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/reached-100000-total-blog-views/ Reached 100, 000 blog views]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha#q=Reached+10%2C+000+SL+tweets+milestone!+hahahaha&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=biMPTtH-M8-FhQfQxs Reached 10, 000 SL tweets milestone]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/ My 5th rez day in Second Life]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/6597002127/in/photostream Reached 20, 000 Flickr SL snapshots milestone on 29th December 2011]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/100-000-blog-hits-record-reached/ '''100, 000 blog hits record reached on 14th June 2012''']
* Reached 3000 comments on my SL blog - 15th March 2013

'''My SL Projects'''
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB2Wiki_Pilot KB2Wiki Pilot]
* [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/sl-metrics/ SL Metrics]
* [http://widgets.pbwiki.com/iDP-Voyager iDP-Voyager]
* NASA & Space rockets (2008-2009)
* RHN (2010-2011)
* SL News Press (2011-2013)
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life]
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager/SLHistorical My new SL Historical page]

== TSL Experience ==
* Managed [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Teen_Second_Life_Volunteers TSL Volunteer Portal and TSL Volunteer Island]
* Was well-known for TSL Mentoring in TSL between 2007-2008
* Kept TeenSL Wikia page updated
* Kept documentation of all things TG including events, blog posts and snapshots!
* Became Estate Manager of Eye4you Alliance, NCI manager and owner of The Nix Bazaar
* Took part in many TG educational projects
* Manager of TSL Welcomers & HQ
* Helped with TSL4B and TSL5B birthday celebrations
* Explored every region on the [[Teen Grid]] in [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/how-long-does-it-take-to-visit-all-public-tg-sims/ 3 hours and 10 minutes].
* Snapshots taken on TSL = 6, 500 snapshots

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User:Daniel Voyager/SLHistorical

2013-05-30T15:55:48Z

Daniel Voyager:

'''Second Life History'''
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life] (2002-2013)
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SL Wikia - Historical pages]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Second Life - Wiki]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Lab Linden Lab - Wiki]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/recap-of-second-life-history-so-far/ Recap of Second Life History, 1999 to 2013]

'''Second Life Birthdays'''
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/First_Birthday_Event SL1B (2004)] - Second Life First Year Anniversary Gala
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Birthday_Event SL2B (2005)] - Giant museum displaying various large builds, pictures of SL over time
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Birthday_Event SL3B (2006)] - Hooray for diversity and Looking towards the future
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL4B SL4B (2007) ] - “era” of SL
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL5B SL5B (2008)] - SL Culture
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL6B SL6B (2009)] - The Future of Virtual Worlds
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL7B SL7B (2010)] - Unexpected Collaborations
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL8B SL8B (2011)] - Magic of Second Life
* [http://sl9b.wordpress.com/ SL9B (2012) ] - Community (resident run event)
* [http://slcommunitycelebration.com/ SL10B (2013)] - Looking Forward. Looking Back (resident run event)

'''SL Birthdays Stats'''
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157630058348567/ SL Birthday Maps]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157630112133990/ SL Birthday Time Capsules]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/second-life-birthday-statistics-so-far/ Second Life Birthday statistics so far]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/linden-lab-ceo-birthday-keynote-addresses-and-photos-from-the-past/ Linden Lab CEO birthday keynote addresses and photos from the past]

'''Second Life First Beta Sims'''
* [http://slnewserplaces.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/first The First Sims]

'''Second Life Historical Locations'''
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157612276298611/ SL Historical Places - My Flickr set]
* [http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/41662-what-oldest-remaining-places-second.html Oldest remaining places in Second Life]
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Historical_Locations Historical Locations - SL Wikia]

'''Second Life Historical Maps'''
* [http://www.slmaps.com/oldmaps.htm Old Maps of SL]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157612023608587/ SL Maps - My Flickr set]

User:Daniel Voyager/SLHistorical

2013-05-30T15:55:37Z

Daniel Voyager:

'''Second Life History'''
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/History_of_Second_Life History of Second Life] (2002-2013)
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page SL Wikia - Historical pages]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Second Life - Wiki]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Lab Linden Lab - Wiki]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/recap-of-second-life-history-so-far/ Recap of Second Life History, 1999 to 2013]

'''Second Life Birthdays'''
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/First_Birthday_Event SL1B (2004)] - Second Life First Year Anniversary Gala
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Birthday_Event SL2B (2005)] - Giant museum displaying various large builds, pictures of SL over time
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Birthday_Event SL3B (2006)] - Hooray for diversity and Looking towards the future
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL4B SL4B (2007) ] - “era” of SL
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL5B SL5B (2008)] - SL Culture
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL6B SL6B (2009)] - The Future of Virtual Worlds
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL7B SL7B (2010)] - Unexpected Collaborations
* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL8B SL8B (2011)] - Magic of Second Life
* [http://sl9b.wordpress.com/ SL9B (2012) ] - Community (resident run event)
* [http://slcommunitycelebration.com/ SL10B (2013)] - Looking Forward. Looking Back (resident run event)

'''SL Birthdays Stats'''
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157630058348567/ SL Birthday Maps]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157630112133990/ SL Birthday Time Capsules]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/second-life-birthday-statistics-so-far/ Second Life Birthday statistics so far]
* [http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/linden-lab-ceo-birthday-keynote-addresses-and-photos-from-the-past/ Linden Lab CEO birthday keynote addresses and photos from the past]

'''Second Life First Beta Sims'''
* [http://slnewserplaces.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/first The First Sims]

'''Second Life Historical Locations'''
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157612276298611/ SL Historical Places - My Flickr set]
* [http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/41662-what-oldest-remaining-places-second.html Oldest remaining places in Second Life]
* [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Historical_Locations Historical Locations - SL Wikia]

'''Second Life Historical Maps'''
* [http://www.slmaps.com/oldmaps.htm Old Maps of SL]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/sets/72157612023608587/ SL Maps - My Flickr set]