Chapter 1. Welcome to Second Life

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Congratulations to the whole SL community on reaching 1 Million residents signed up!! Second Life is growing because together we are all building content, welcoming new people, expanding the community, and adding new capabilities to the system.

Philip Linden

Second Life (SL) is a new world accessible only through the Internet. You don’t need to buy anything to participate; it’s free to join. You will find passion, history, art, politics, culture, government, and drama in SL. It has an aboriginal population (old timers), and it has an ever-growing number of artists, explorers, entrepreneurs, settlers, designers, ...

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