Ryan Linden wrote the original design documentation for the telehubs, at first calling them "perches" with the idea that they would all be in the air (like the Oak Grove and Mauve telehubs pictured below). However, due to residents sometimes falling off of them, a land design was favored soon after introduction. The original design and art was done by Eric Linden and Alberto Linden and the name "telehub" was a derivative from a term Phoenix Linden used in referring to them as "telehubbies". One idea that was considered during conception was that residents would have to go to the telehubs to recieve their stipend but this idea was dropped and never implemented.