Steller Sunshine And Philip Linden Turn 10!

Second Life has many landmarks and I don’t mean the ones you put in your inventory, ok we’lll include them too! However a big one was reached yesterday, prompted by a post earlier in the month from Hamlet Au, Steller Sunshine has now reached the grand old age of ten, according to Steller’s profile anyway which has a birthdate of 13th March 2002! Steller Sunshine is considered to be the first official non Linden resident to grace the grid.

According to Hamlet, Steller is from South California, a web designer and a mother of four. Steller’s official birthdate makes her an older resident than Philip Linden whose official birthdate was 14th March 2002! Which means Philip’s avatar officially turns 10 today, so he should be promising us something, instead of his new venture over at I Promise Philip where people are promising to meet goals or pay Philip money! Beer and Cake will do!

According to Second Life Wikia Steller created a beanstalk, which Hamlet Au told us back in 2008 ,was SL’s first instance of user created content, Steller is also credited with creating a treehouse and the Governor’s mansion, is this true? The Governor’s mansion? The mansion of the mysterious Governor Linden? Governor Linden didn’t arrive until September 2002 so is a noob compared to Steller and Philip and rumour has it Governor Linden is a bit like Doctor Who in having many guises.

The Wiki has a section on the history of Second Life, the 2002 section tells us about Steller Sunshine arriving, seven months before the project went Public Beta. LindenWorld was first and is of course older than Second Life, but Second Life arrived via LindenWorld.

Ten years is a long time, even if the project has been running for longer than ten years in all its guises, one would hope that Linden Lab will make a big song and dance about Second Life’s tenth birthday this year, it’s a very impressive goal and a long way from the sixteen region Second Life of Steller Sunshine’s birth and an even longer way from the LindenWorld video from 2001 that James Linden made.

Let’s hope that Steller Sunshine and Philip Linden have many more happy returns in Second Life, and let’s see what we could have won if LindenWorld had carried on the way it was going back in August 2001!

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