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Linden Lab
Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) created Linden Lab, a company that developed a program in which people could go into a virtual world. -
The Rig
In the beginning the firm of Linden Lab tried to commercialize and develop hardware which could create a virtual world. From this the idea of Linden World was developed where people could participate in different oriented games with specific tasks as well as socialize in a tridimensional world on-line. -
Second Life
Second Life (a metaverse) was developed by Linden Lab in 2003. It is a virtual world in which the residents (avatars made by people) can take part in many activities resembling those of real life such as clubbing, owning a home or family, even becoming vampires, lycans and furrys (animals). -
Teen Second Life
Known as the Teen Grid, Teen Second LIfe was developed for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 to not have them create and give in false information to go into Second Live. Which was reserved for people 18 and older. -
More Time on Teen Grid
On January 2006 the Teen Grid's operatin hours were aumented to 24 hours when before it was only from noon to 10pm Pacific Time. -
Many hours
In January of 2008 residents of SL had spent over 8.274.005 in the tanatoverse, with 38,000 present anytime. The greatest concurrence of residents registered was of 88,200 in the first trimester of 2009. -
Teen Grid Closing Down
During the sixth annual Second Life Community Convention in Boston, Philip Rosedale announced the impending closure of the Teen Grid, scheduled for December 31.He attributed the decision to close the grid to the confusion of handling development and improvement of both the Main Grid and the Teen Grid. -
Transferring Accounts
Linden Labs transferred accounts, inventory and land held residents 16 and older. People who were under 16 were put on hold till their 16th birthday, when they were transferred into the regular Second Life. Any Land still owned by anyone under 16 was auctioned off. Terrence Linden advised people who are 16 to sell their land and cash the linden dollars out to real dollars. People who were 16 and 17 could only access general content, till they turned 18 and could access mature content.
