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2003·Early web, before YouTube

Second Life

A world people moved into, with an economy real enough to have a currency crisis.

You might remember it as Linden dollars

From the early web

The story

What this was

A user-built virtual world with land, money and a functioning economy, taken seriously enough that embassies and universities opened branches in it. The first mass demonstration that people would live somewhere that did not exist.

It first appeared in 2003, during early web, before YouTube.

The same internet

Early web, before YouTube

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Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.

Behind the record

Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What happens
A user-built virtual world with land, money and a functioning economy, taken seriously enough that embassies and universities opened branches in it. The first mass demonstration that people would live somewhere that did not exist.
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