Second Life History

Sci-Fi Con in Second Life: A Resident-Built Convention Worth Knowing About

Black and white charcoal drawing of a busy Second Life Sci-Fi Con scene with futuristic buildings, hovering spacecraft, avatars, an exhibit hall, and a large sci-fi convention banner.

Second Life Sci-Fi Con is one of the grid’s longest-running resident-made events. Here’s what it is, where it came from, and why it still works.

YavaScript Pods: The Quiet Transport Network That Keeps Second Life’s Mainland Moving

A simple black-and-white pencil line drawing of a rounded Yava pod on a quiet Second Life mainland road, with sparse scenery and a handwritten “roxksie” signature in the bottom right.

Second Life’s mainland has always been a bit of a mess. Not in a bad way. In the way that things are when they have actually been lived in. It sprawls across continents that were never designed to be coherent. Roads go places without obvious reason. Waterways appear between regions like they were planned by … Read more