SL History

I think she’s astonished that Second Life has lasted this long…

Seconderth (a deep map)

(Part the First: Being a pictorial series covering the first 47 regions of Second Life, those which existed as of the official Opening, June 23, 2003)

Preface

~ The Original Sixteen ~

~ The First Expansion ~

~ Open Beta Begins ~

Rizal, Morris & Ahern

~ The Color Sims + 2 ~

~ Interlude ~

(Part the Second: Being a series of random walks through post-Opening SL history)

I-World Island

A Correction

SS9B (Steller Sunshine’s 9th Rezday, 13 Mar 2011)

Bay City Boardwalk

Rizal, Revisited

Wild West Town Rides Again

Other posts in this blog touching upon the history of Second Life:

SL 8.25 B : The Oldest Objects in Second Life

“Welcome to Second Life” – a pictorial review

References and Further Resources:

In-world ~

The SL Historical Museum

The official Second Life Wiki ~

– History of Second Life

– Orientation Island

– Welcome Area

Second Life Wikia ~

– Timeline

– Historical Locations

– San Francisco Sims

– Color Sims

– Release Notes; a compilation of Second Life “viewer” software release notes from v0.1.0 (Closed Beta – March 2003) through v1.19.0 (Feb 2008)

Maps ~

– Bino Arbuckle’s website, SLMaps – Maps of Second Life

– Wizard Gynoid’s Flickr set, Historic SL Maps

– The Maps of Second Life Pool on Flickr

Snapzilla ~

You can search the entire collection by region name, then sort the results oldest-first to find many images of the Elder Days, and builds which are long gone. Snapzilla was started in 2005, though some of the images uploaded to it may be older.

2nd Look Image Gallery ~

Never popular, from the looks of it — 1229 images uploaded from March 2004 to July 2008, and none since — but it has some gems among the dross, and a few that were recorded long before they were uploaded to the site.

Pituca Fairchang ~

Memoirs of an Oldbie

Daniel Voyager ~

– the SL History page at his blog

– SL Historical Locations – one of Daniel’s many photo sets at Flickr

Headburro Antfarm ~

– BB’s Road Trip

– The Magellan Files

… at his blog, Backpacking Burro.

“The Virtual Whirl” by Tateru Nino at Massively ~

– A brief history of Second Life: 1999 – 2004

– A brief history of Second Life, the middle years (2005 – 2007)