Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 59

SLUniverse.com Turns 10: Exclusive Party See’s Oldbies on the Grid Again. - p4

Linden Dollars got real world value.
Suddenly we had fortune hunters
appear. Businesses in SL existed before
I arrived. In those days, they were a
hobby which traded in play money.
Today, people have more skin in the
game, so to speak. It isn't just build a
s t a n d a n d s e l l s t u ff a ny m o r e .
Successful SL brands today seem to
require lots of me and RL money to
succeed.”
Perhaps its not possible for anything,
RL or SL to remain the same. That quiet
street in a small town that you may
remember growing up on — well it
don’t exist. Life is change, thats how it
differs from the rocks.

"You and me, we had a culture. Maybe
it was a good one, and maybe it wasn't.
But it's gone now, for be er or worse.
By sheer numbers, these new women
and men are Second Life. They
outnumber us, and they will be the
ones to make or break the world. They
don't know who Aimee Weber is, or
Anshe Chung, or Starax Statosky or
Prokofy Neva or Torley Linden.” Tateru
Nino wrote that October 24, 2006. So
much has changed since then.
Cris ano Midnight and SL Universe is
all the more extraordinary for having
thrived and grown to almost 2 million
posts since it began. Perhaps SLU’s
longevity is a func on of what it is.
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