Baba joined Second Life during the late beta on May 27, 2003 rush after seeing a posting on Slashdot. Moving quickly, he purchased some prime public land over the water in a little sim called Taber. Around this time Linden Lab announced a project to make available land to several projects for their use in developing large sim wide landmark builds. Baba helped form the group Little Tokyo, whose goal was to build an Japanese anime inspired sim. The project tinkered and toiled for a while before Linden Lab opened the sims to the public. Each surviving project recived a landmark icon on the world map. Due to the land tools at the time, Linden Dollar taxes, general apathy the Little Tokyo project sort faded away after beta.