SL History
Second Life
- Linden Lab was founded in 1999
- In August 2001 SL was called LindenWorld
- Closed beta began on November 2002 with public beta opening on April 2003
- Second Life was launched on June 23rd 2003 developed by Linden Lab. CEO and founder Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden)
- First ever blog post created on the Official Second Life Blog on October 4th 2004
- On October 18th 2006 at 8:05:45 SLT 1 million residents was recorded in Second Life
- Removal of Ratings in Beta in April 2007
- Windlight was built into the SL viewer (1.19.1) on April 2nd 2008
- Philip Linden stepped down as CEO in March 2008
- New CEO M Linden took over at LL during April 2008
- OnRez and XStreet SL was integrated on 20th January 2009
- Snowglobe 1.1 released in August 2009
- LL shut down SL Mentor program on 10th December 2009
- Linden Lab launches new SL Forums on 9th February 2010
- Snowglobe 2.0 released on 22nd February 2010
- Linden Lab launches new Viewer 2.0 Public Beta on 23rd February 2010
- Viewer 2 launched officially (out of beta) on 31st March 2010
- M Linden left Linden Lab, Philip Linden replaced M on 24th June 2010
- Philip Linden announced that Burning Life will be renamed to BURN 2.0 on July 22nd 2010
- Farewell to Avatars United – 23rd September 2010
- Rod Humble new CEO of LL – 23rd December 2010
- Teen Second Life merges with Main Grid – 21st January 2011
- Linden Lab launched the new Second Life Community Platform on 3rd March 2011
- Linden Lab launched Basic/Advanced modes in Viewer 2 on 29th March 2011
- Linden Lab announced that mesh is coming this summer (July/August) – 31st May 2011
- Group Chat testing event on Beta Grid hosted by Linden Lab (4pm SLT) on 2nd June 2011
- Linden Lab launched the new social web profiles on 26th July 2011
- Mesh goes live across the grid – 23rd August 2011
- Linden Lab introduces Pathfinding alpha – 16th February 2012
- Linden Lab announced that Second Life’s 9th Birthday will now focus on the spotlight community events – 16th April 2012
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