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| - On June 23rd 2005 Second Life celebrated its 2nd birthday, or rather the day Second Life was opened to the public! The main celebration was held in the Vehicle Sims of Bethel, Brilliant, Georgean, and Fortuna. The four vehicle sims were turned into a giant museum displaying various large builds, pictures of SL over time, and objects from the time capsule opened last year. The main layout comprised of four large pathways going out in all cardinal directions with a large celebration area in the middle at the corner of the four sims. Along the sides of these pathways were the various builds and objects people laid out for others to see. The event area and event itself were all put together by a group of residents led by Pathfinder Linden who happily took on the task of setting it all up.
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| - On June 23rd 2005 Second Life celebrated its 2nd birthday, or rather the day Second Life was opened to the public! The main celebration was held in the Vehicle Sims of Bethel, Brilliant, Georgean, and Fortuna. The four vehicle sims were turned into a giant museum displaying various large builds, pictures of SL over time, and objects from the time capsule opened last year. The main layout comprised of four large pathways going out in all cardinal directions with a large celebration area in the middle at the corner of the four sims. Along the sides of these pathways were the various builds and objects people laid out for others to see. The event area and event itself were all put together by a group of residents led by Pathfinder Linden who happily took on the task of setting it all up. Some of the larger setups in the sims included work by residents Maxx Monde, Talila Liu, A small grouping of Anshe Chung signs, ARMORD's space needle, Lordfly Digeridoo's Towers, a small city replica with resident images, Cubey's Zoe airfield, Spitoonie rides, Cannibas Cathedral, a movie theater with various Media mentionings of SL and a video, images taken by Salazar Jack, with it all encircled by Spitoonie's monorail. At the event itself started at 3 PM with DJing done by Adam Linden, a speech by Philip Linden (found below), and an appearance from the elusive Governor Linden. Since the party was held at the corner of the four sims more than 100 people were able to show up, amazingly none of the sims crashed and the only issues seemed to be some typical lag, grey avatars, and the inability to teleport out of the sim without several tries. The party continued on and the sims remained packed for several hours even after the event had officially ended. Video Linden even showed up, giving the secondlife.com website a direct view into the ongoing event. An official Linden parade was not held. However Mimi Therian, being disappointed to hear that there wouldn't be one, took it upon herself to put one together in time for the 25th. The parade floats were mostly made by Mimi herself, but there seemed to be one or two made by others. Floats included a Linden ridden float, a giant bone, dancers, and the SL Boxing league, among others. The parade route was around the area were the celebration was held, through the four vehicle sims. The parade and crowd following ended up filling each sim to its brink as it went through. Afterward a small party was held that also unofficially marked the end of the celebrations as the vehicle sims were cleared of the anniversary monuments and re-teraformed for the Pride Parade and events.
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