History – Ciaran Laval

Time portals have been opening in Second Life and on Saturday July 15th a new one appeared, this one taking us on a journey to Tudor London, which in my opinion is a modern looking environment.

As an intrepid explorer I decided I would research this location for you all and in between having some ale and a pie in The George Tavern I also found myself bumping into a time traveller who is better known for their appearances in 1920’s Berlin.

I stood quietly as a female looking time traveller with, as far as I know, only one heart, played a pleasant tune. This is part of the beauty of the diverse nature of Second Life, we’ve had a time traveller in a female form playing a leading role for far longer than the BBC.

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Whilst reading this week’s Highlights From The Destination Guide by Linden Lab, Sniper’s Siemens’ The Story – Second Life, called out to me. There’s an accompanying video which gives a great overview of the exhibit, which I will embed near the bottom of this post.

The Story – Second Life is a Linden Endowment for the Arts project, created by Sniper Siemens which tells a year by year story of Second Life, starting in 1999, before Second Life was considered a viable project as a virtual world. Linden Lab were originally looking at hardware and researching haptics, indeed they had been working on something known as “The Rig”, nobody is quite sure where “The Rig” is these days.

To test the hardware being developed, Linden Lab needed software and that’s where LindenWorld comes into the story, LindenWorld would eventually be renamed Second Life, although I’m still convinced that the Lindens have a top secret LindenWorld bunker somewhere on the grid. Blondin Linden would never allow me secret access.

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