Article on Virtual Worlds
May. 11th, 2005 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
From News.com: A Virtual World with Peer to Peer Style
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""Second Life" has 28,000 people online today, and some inhabitants are already making more than $100,000 a year in real-world money by selling digital wares constructed inside the world or running full-fledged role-playing games.
"Second Life" is built on a distributed model, in which numerous servers are connected together, each one representing about 16 acres of land in the digital world. Those patches of digital space are seamlessly connected together to create the world as experienced by visitors.... "
excerpt:
""Second Life" has 28,000 people online today, and some inhabitants are already making more than $100,000 a year in real-world money by selling digital wares constructed inside the world or running full-fledged role-playing games.
"Second Life" is built on a distributed model, in which numerous servers are connected together, each one representing about 16 acres of land in the digital world. Those patches of digital space are seamlessly connected together to create the world as experienced by visitors.... "
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Date: 2005-05-11 11:54 pm (UTC)you asked a few weeks ago how i survive as an artist, and the truth is by the hair of me chiny chin chin! work is disappearing again and i had a serious freakout session today, no thanks to the moodiness of bad insomnia. apparently i'm a bit more manic than i realized, or my new space is bringing it out in me.
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-12 12:42 pm (UTC)We could meet on your farm for lunch breaks somedays.;)
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Date: 2005-05-12 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-13 04:40 am (UTC)Most excellent =)
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Date: 2005-05-13 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-13 12:29 pm (UTC)and also I had never been to your deviantgallery there!!!
Love the color work on your photos- magical moodiness.
Those light flare ones are amazing, both...and I LOVE the bench pic...so surreal.meet you there.;)
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Date: 2005-05-14 08:41 pm (UTC)Seems like it's time to get out the camera again, it's been the better part of a year!