The last week or so of June this year was selected to celebrate the 11th Year of Second Life. It wasn't really pushed too much, and if you tried an in world search to find the apparently vast celebration, it did not come up easily. I eventually found it using a web search and then following a teleport link from a website. You'd think Linden Labs would be making sure everyone could easily find something that showcased the creativity and history of a virtual world that is now old enough to ride most roller coasters. Be that as it may, I did find it, but I'm still using a cobbled together PC and even using Firestorm it really doesn't deal well with busy sim unless I crank way back on the graphics. So...I only did a little looking around and only took two snapshots. I wearing an older mesh hair, that is white and some clothing layer stuff to keep down on lag.
I'm sure there was all kinds of other neat stuff, but I keep crashing and just gave up on it for the moment. I never got back to it before the end of the event.
On a similar bittersweet note, at about the same time as the SL11B event, Linden Labs announced their intention to create a new virtual world. One that is not backwards compatible with Second Life and that will not be open source. They claimed that they will be phasing out development for SL, but will keep the existing system running as long as it is profitable. Given LL's history to date, that doesn't sound real promising.
So will their be a SL12B? Almost certainly. SL13, very probably. After that...Who knows. But basically the doctor has said it's terminal, just not how long we've got.
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