Comments on: My interpretation of Philip Linden`s vision http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2004/10/03/my-interpretation-of-philip-lindens-vision/ Socio-Economical Articles about the Second Life® world Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mona http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2004/10/03/my-interpretation-of-philip-lindens-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-8756 Mona Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:45:49 +0000 http://gwynethllewelyn.net/article20visual1layout1.html#comment-8756 I remember making my first "homepage". I was a college student in the mid nineties and was lucky to have free access to the back then still new and untamed internet. I wrote my "homepage" by hand, using notepad.exe, studying each HTML command carefully and typing it letter by letter. I had fun playing with font sizes, tables, colors and designs. My page was personal, about my pets, vacations and favorite TV shows. We were all playing around with the new technology, and most people laughed about my silly pastime. We were just using it because we could. A few years later people came to ask me for advice because suddenly everyone wanted to be "online". Now there isn't a single company that does not have a website. Since I started using SL I have deja vus all the time. The day a piece of land's ownership was changed to my name I was excited - the same way I was when my domain name was registered and my homepage was finally there. I felt like being part of something that will eventually change the world. To create something permanent in cyberspace for other people to visit was extremely exciting in 96, but now, it is really a "space" where my visitors can walk! My home in SL doesn't have a purpose that goes beyond "just being there". It's not a business, it's not for studying. It's just to play around with prims, colors, designs, music. It's there to express myself. Most people on SL are just "playing around", much the same way most internet users were just "playing around" in 1995, 1996. We are here to be here, to be a part of the future. SL's history seems to be faster than the web's. Already big companies join to do more serious things and the initial hype is gone. Most interesting, the same crititisms arise. Addiction, various accusations of sexual and criminal nature, and the constant notion of this being "just a game" and a waste of time. I see history repeat itself. Let's see virtual worlds in 5 years! I remember making my first “homepage”. I was a college student in the mid nineties and was lucky to have free access to the back then still new and untamed internet. I wrote my “homepage” by hand, using notepad.exe, studying each HTML command carefully and typing it letter by letter. I had fun playing with font sizes, tables, colors and designs. My page was personal, about my pets, vacations and favorite TV shows. We were all playing around with the new technology, and most people laughed about my silly pastime. We were just using it because we could. A few years later people came to ask me for advice because suddenly everyone wanted to be “online”. Now there isn’t a single company that does not have a website.

Since I started using SL I have deja vus all the time. The day a piece of land’s ownership was changed to my name I was excited – the same way I was when my domain name was registered and my homepage was finally there. I felt like being part of something that will eventually change the world. To create something permanent in cyberspace for other people to visit was extremely exciting in 96, but now, it is really a “space” where my visitors can walk! My home in SL doesn’t have a purpose that goes beyond “just being there”. It’s not a business, it’s not for studying. It’s just to play around with prims, colors, designs, music. It’s there to express myself. Most people on SL are just “playing around”, much the same way most internet users were just “playing around” in 1995, 1996. We are here to be here, to be a part of the future.

SL’s history seems to be faster than the web’s. Already big companies join to do more serious things and the initial hype is gone.

Most interesting, the same crititisms arise. Addiction, various accusations of sexual and criminal nature, and the constant notion of this being “just a game” and a waste of time. I see history repeat itself. Let’s see virtual worlds in 5 years!

]]> By: Mona http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2004/10/03/my-interpretation-of-philip-lindens-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-29358 Mona Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:45:00 +0000 http://gwynethllewelyn.net/article20visual1layout1.html#comment-29358 I remember making my first "homepage". I was a college student in the mid nineties and was lucky to have free access to the back then still new and untamed internet. I wrote my "homepage" by hand, using notepad.exe, studying each HTML command carefully and typing it letter by letter. I had fun playing with font sizes, tables, colors and designs. My page was personal, about my pets, vacations and favorite TV shows. We were all playing around with the new technology, and most people laughed about my silly pastime. We were just using it because we could. A few years later people came to ask me for advice because suddenly everyone wanted to be "online". Now there isn't a single company that does not have a website. Since I started using SL I have deja vus all the time. The day a piece of land's ownership was changed to my name I was excited - the same way I was when my domain name was registered and my homepage was finally there. I felt like being part of something that will eventually change the world. To create something permanent in cyberspace for other people to visit was extremely exciting in 96, but now, it is really a "space" where my visitors can walk! My home in SL doesn't have a purpose that goes beyond "just being there". It's not a business, it's not for studying. It's just to play around with prims, colors, designs, music. It's there to express myself. Most people on SL are just "playing around", much the same way most internet users were just "playing around" in 1995, 1996. We are here to be here, to be a part of the future. SL's history seems to be faster than the web's. Already big companies join to do more serious things and the initial hype is gone. Most interesting, the same crititisms arise. Addiction, various accusations of sexual and criminal nature, and the constant notion of this being "just a game" and a waste of time. I see history repeat itself. Let's see virtual worlds in 5 years! I remember making my first “homepage”. I was a college student in the mid nineties and was lucky to have free access to the back then still new and untamed internet. I wrote my “homepage” by hand, using notepad.exe, studying each HTML command carefully and typing it letter by letter. I had fun playing with font sizes, tables, colors and designs. My page was personal, about my pets, vacations and favorite TV shows. We were all playing around with the new technology, and most people laughed about my silly pastime. We were just using it because we could. A few years later people came to ask me for advice because suddenly everyone wanted to be “online”. Now there isn’t a single company that does not have a website.

Since I started using SL I have deja vus all the time. The day a piece of land’s ownership was changed to my name I was excited – the same way I was when my domain name was registered and my homepage was finally there. I felt like being part of something that will eventually change the world. To create something permanent in cyberspace for other people to visit was extremely exciting in 96, but now, it is really a “space” where my visitors can walk! My home in SL doesn’t have a purpose that goes beyond “just being there”. It’s not a business, it’s not for studying. It’s just to play around with prims, colors, designs, music. It’s there to express myself. Most people on SL are just “playing around”, much the same way most internet users were just “playing around” in 1995, 1996. We are here to be here, to be a part of the future.

SL’s history seems to be faster than the web’s. Already big companies join to do more serious things and the initial hype is gone.

Most interesting, the same crititisms arise. Addiction, various accusations of sexual and criminal nature, and the constant notion of this being “just a game” and a waste of time. I see history repeat itself. Let’s see virtual worlds in 5 years!

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