Since hearing about the removal of 'First Land' - the heavily discounted 512m squared plots which users could buy for L$512 - I worry about how easy it is for newcomers to get 'engaged' in this world.
Very much like the early days of the world wide web, around 1994, when it took quite a bit of geekery to get anything on the web, eventually companies like GeoCities popped up to make it easy to get a web page up on the internet - for FREE : if you could
So, I wonder - are there any places like this in Second Life? Places where newcomers can bed down for a while to get a feel for the advantages of 'having a home' on the Grid.
Maybe this lack of First Land might stop the ugly 'Ghettos' which appear rapidly around First Land areas, which can also put off newcomers, I suppose. They really can be a mess. The thing is, this 'chaos' can also be the alluring this about SL.
Would a 'free hosting' - 'free land' business work in SL, if it was propped up financially by obnoxious ads? ;)
posted by Koz Farina on Hyperborea using a blogHUD : [permalink]
Very much like the early days of the world wide web, around 1994, when it took quite a bit of geekery to get anything on the web, eventually companies like GeoCities popped up to make it easy to get a web page up on the internet - for FREE : if you could
So, I wonder - are there any places like this in Second Life? Places where newcomers can bed down for a while to get a feel for the advantages of 'having a home' on the Grid.
Maybe this lack of First Land might stop the ugly 'Ghettos' which appear rapidly around First Land areas, which can also put off newcomers, I suppose. They really can be a mess. The thing is, this 'chaos' can also be the alluring this about SL.
Would a 'free hosting' - 'free land' business work in SL, if it was propped up financially by obnoxious ads? ;)
posted by Koz Farina on Hyperborea using a blogHUD : [permalink]
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