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 and the new CEO M Linden took over in April 2008
• OnRez and XStreet SL was integrated on January 20th 2009
• SL6B Birthday – June 23rd 2009
• LL redesigns SecondLife.com – 27th August 2009
• Philip Linden moves on from LL – 16th October 2009
• SL Burning Life 2009 – 17th-25th October 2009

SL Wikia

Teen Second Life

2005

• Teen Second Life was officially opened on February 14th 2005.
• TG Amnesty period, new terms and rules were created in 2005.

2006

• On January 1st 2006 the teen grid operating hours increased to 24 hours a day, came out of beta, was previously opened from 12pm to 10pm SLT
• Blue Linden was in charge of the Teen Grid in January 2006 and stepped down as TG Linden Manager in December 2008
• Eye4you opens to the public in late 2006

2007

• Teen Grid Unification Project started in April 2007
• TSL YAM meeting in April 2007
• TSL celebrates TSL4B
• TSL Volunteer Island created in December 2007 and was closed down in early 2009

2008

• First TSL Debate was hosted in late January 2008 by Teens. Blue and Mia Linden too
• Torley Linden visits TSL on 12th February 2008
• TG Protest against Desire
• TG Bay City regions opened on 13th of May 2008
• Torley Linden’s TSL Q&A session from 2-3pm SLT – 25th June 2008
• TSL Drunk A Linden – 26th June 2008
• M Linden visits TSL on 3rd July 2008
• I-World Village is created in late July 2008
• TG Orientation Island was removed in August 2008
• Pinkwater Mail was removed in August 2008
• Teagan Linden does first office hour on the TG, end of August
• SLCC08 was live in TSL at Eye4you Nasa Space Station in September 2008
• TSL Forums Linden Answer section was shut down in October 2008
• TSL WinterFest 2008 was hosted on 10th of December 2008

2009

• TSL Volunteer Island was removed and TSL Mentors program was shut down in early 2009
• SL6B Teen was copied over from the Teen Grid to the Main Grid for Second Life 6th Birthday celebrations in July 2009
• Eye4you Alliance island shuts down on the 12th of July 2009, Eye4you Alliance Blog.

Futher information is TBC!