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| − | <div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">This is the front page for documenting the various aspects of [http://teen.secondlife.com/ Teen Second Life's] history.</div> |
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| − | *[[Teen General|General]] |
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| − | *[[Teen Groups|Groups]] |
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| + | The Teen Grid existed as a segregated area from the original Second Life world (Main Grid, which was initially restricted to persons aged 18+), from February the 13th 2005 to January 20th 2011. |
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| − | *[[Teen Firsts|Firsts]] |
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| − | *[[Teen Locations|Locations]] |
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| − | The Teen Grid is a separate "grid" (or world) from the original "Main Grid" (18+) and is only for teens from 13 to 17. Once a teen turns 18 they are transported to the Main Grid, avatars, names, and inventories are all maintained. The Teen Grid was started in a closed Beta around February 13th of 2005, during this period a few previously Main Grid residents were transferred over for testing. Linden Lab gave "amnesty" to several Main Grid residents during this phase if they told LL they were underage (previously being caught underage would result in a ban), these Residents became beta testers and world founders to help build the world before it was opened to the public. Several rules were set for the Teen Grid, the most notable being that cross-communication between the Teen Grid and Main Grid is not allowed. The Teen Grid soon opened to the public with a shiny new website and forums. However due to staff and office hours the Teen Grid was only open during office hours, much like when Second Life was in Beta. As of January 1st, 2006, the teen grid opened 24/7, to all residents. You can sign up to Teen Second Life: [https://secure-web7.secondlife.com/join/index.php?country=us Here] |
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| + | Prior to the merger that saw both grids physically united as one, residents on Teen Grid were aged 13 to 17, and would be transferred to the Main Grid upon reaching their 18th Birthday. |
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| + | Since the Grid merge, the age requirement to use Second Life has been lowered from 18 to 16. Individuals below this age limit who previously held accounts on the Teen Grid have had their inventories saved and all of their assets put on-hold until they meet the new requirements. |
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| + | The rest of the former Teen Grid populous were given access to what was previously Main Grid (With the exception of "[[Adult]]" regions) and transferred alongside their assets. |
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| + | Most of what had previously been Teen Grid mainland was retained (With the exception of [[Bannockburn]] and [[Midway Battlegrounds]] which were deleted, and the numerous [[Bay City]] regions which were moved to be alongside their Main Grid counterparts) |
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| − | '''February 2005:''' |
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| − | *Only for teens 13-17 |
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| − | *When a teen turns 18 they are transported to the Main Grid |
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| − | *The Teen Grid is not a section of the Main Grid, but a separate grid |
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| − | *Amnesty period |
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| − | *Teen Grid rules |
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| − | *Open only during Linden Labs office hours much like SL in beta |
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| − | *Officially to "provide an international gathering place for teens 13-17 to make friends and to play, learn and create." |
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| + | Adults can now enter Teen Grid unrestricted, as they would with publicly accessible Main Grid regions. Subsequently, much of Teen Grid is now owned by residents of Main Grid origin, with land prices rocketing and dramatically altering the Teen Grid economy. |
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| − | '''January 2006''' |
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| − | *January 1, 2006 - Teen Second Life leaves Beta |
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| − | *Open 24/7 |
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| − | *Blue Linden in charge |
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| − | *Global Kids creates in-world journal to document best practices and offer analysis |
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| − | *The Holy Meatballs of Divine Spongiform |
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| + | Teen Grid began as a closed experimental project, and was initially only online during certain hours of the day (Unlike Main Grid, which was a 24 hour service). |
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| − | '''February/March 2006''' |
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| + | On January 1st 2006, Teen Grid became a 24 hour service. |
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| − | *Global Kids comes to the teen grid |
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| − | *Island transferred |
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| − | *Built by The Magicians |
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| + | Throughout its existence, Teen Grid has been home to an expansive and colourful military community - much of the land and content sales on the grid being combat-orientated. |
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| − | '''May 2006''' |
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| − | *http://www.holymeatballs.org is launched (blog covering GK programs in and out of TSL) |
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| − | *Save Darfur campaign comes to TSL |
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| + | On January 20th 2011, Philip Linden announced that Main Grid and Teen Grid would cease to be segregated, and gradually details of the Grid merge began to appear. Whilst various details changed prior to the final event, it became apparent that this was not another false alarm (Various Linden staff and Teen residents had stated on numerous occasions that the Grids would be merged, to no avail). |
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| − | '''June-August 2006''' |
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| − | *Claudia Linden joins Blue; Claudia focuses on Sub-estates |
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| − | *Camp GK announced by Global Kids on SecondCast |
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| − | **Competitive application process |
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| − | **Three hours a day, five days a week, for four weeks |
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| − | **Combined GK workshops with constructivist power of SL |
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| − | *[http://zoomlab.org/kc/ Kids Connect] program launched |
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| − | **summer program geared toward using media art, performance and collaborative creation in SL for cultural exchange |
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| − | **pilot project between New York and Amsterdam |
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| − | **Kids Connect Island comes to the teen grid |
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| + | Prior to Philip Linden's announcement of the grid merge, the military community began to waver - many of the groups that had built it having members coming of age and subsequently moving to Main Grid. |
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| − | '''September 2006''' |
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| − | *GK publishes Best Practices document |
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| − | *Lucky + Cory + Mariel = TSL Survey |
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| + | This, combined with the rise of copybotting lead to a steady downfall in the economy, many content creators leaving the grid as a result or facing competition at the hands of the numerous freely-available stolen main grid items. Once the merge happened competition got even worth as teen builders and military groups could not compete with the prices or the builds established in the main grid leading to most builders leaving and military groups being disbanded. |
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| − | '''October 2006''' |
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| − | *MacArthur Foundation announcement simulcast in main and teen grid of Second Life. |
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| − | *First dual grid stream |
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| − | *$50m for new 5-year Digital Media and Learning Initiative |
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| − | vFunding for Global Kids over three years includes Second-Life based programming. |
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| − | *Favorite quote, heard from teen during MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton's introduction: "You know, I think Jackie Chan should be giving this whole speech thing. No one could do it better." |
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| + | == TSL SL Wikia Pages == |
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| − | '''November 2006''' |
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| − | *Wayne MacPhail - Who’s on Second Podcast - http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos |
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| − | *GK's Virtual Video Project launches at Museum of the Moving Image |
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| − | *GK Inverts Camp GK for new Leadership program |
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| − | *International Criminal Court Scavenger Hunt |
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| − | *US Holocaust Museum's Darfur Photo exhibit in TSL |
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| − | *Social Contract proposed by Global Kids to eliminate the Linden Curtain |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Sims Teen Sims] |
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| − | '''December 2006''' |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Locations Teen Locations] |
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| − | *Eye4You Alliance opens publicly to TSL residents. GK Island is no longer alone |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Maps Teen Maps] |
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| − | *The Global Kids Guide To Presenting In Teen Second Life released |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Grid_Groups Teen Grid Groups] |
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| − | *UNICEF's A World Fit For Children Festival |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Residents Teen Residents] |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Firsts Teen Firsts] |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Records Teen Records] |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_General Teen General] |
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| + | * [http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Town_Halls Teen Town Halls] |
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| − | '''January 2007''' |
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| − | *US Holocaust Museum – Mia Farrow speaks on situation in Darfur in TSL |
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| − | '''February 2007''' |
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| − | *MIT Beyond Broadcast conference in TSL |
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| − | *GK launches two new islands, one for Machinima and one for Serious Games |
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| − | '''March 2007''' |
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| − | *Eye4You alliance has a week festival in SL in conjunction with national event |
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| − | *McKinley Tech high school, Washington, D.C. |
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| − | *SL Professional Development Curriculum |
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| − | *Playing 4 Keeps |
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| − | *National Service Learning Council simulcasts annual conference into TSL |
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| − | *GK celebrates one year anniversary - The majority of the events, activities and builds were created and run by teens |
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| − | Activities: |
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| − | *Scavenger Hunt on global environmental issues |
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| − | *GK Birthday Cake Baking Contest |
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| − | *A tour of the new NOAA Glacier followed by a workshop on global climate change |
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| − | *Two dance parties |
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| − | *Birthday card signing |
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| − | Panels: |
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| − | *TSL residents present on the past year of programs in TSL |
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| − | *TSL residents debate the role of adults in online teen spaces |
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| − | *Blue and Philip Linden on the past, present and future of TSL |
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| − | *Representatives from Learn & Serve America and the National Youth Leadership Council speak to teens through a live audio stream on service-learning |
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| − | *A live video from the annual Global Kids youth conference |
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| − | '''April 2007''' |
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| − | *Moo Money comes to GK island |
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| − | *GK Leadership Program relaunched |
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| − | *NTEC presentation on Second Life rated best conference presentation |
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| − | *Linden Lab responds to teen and adult requests by reorganizing the grid |
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| − | *Teen Unification Project begins |
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| − | *TSL YA (Youth Advocates) forms (Made up of adults doing work within the TSL grid; currently creating a manifesto - the YAM - to empower teens to hold them accountable through a Teen Seal of Approval) |
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| − | *Virtual Video Project launches first set of machinima PSA’s |
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| − | *GK receives funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to partner with YouthVenture in TSL to bring health-related youth entrepreneurship into Second Life |
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| − | *Dubai American Academy builds a presence on [http://daateensecondlife.blogspot.com/2007/03/zoomlab-partnership-with-daa.html Kids Connect Island] |
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| − | '''May 2007''' |
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| − | *[http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/06/vvp_a_childs_war_released_year.html A Child's War] launched by Global Kids, a 6.5 minute SL-based machinima about child soldiers in Uganda made by GK Youth Leaders through a year-long after school program. |
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| − | '''June 2007''' |
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| − | *[http://tslwiki.vintfalken.com/wiki/Main_Page The Unofficial TSL Wiki] was made alpha by Smiley Barry, it's creator. |
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| − | *Version 1.17 causes Teen Grid glitches ("This time even more than the Main Grid's glitches that occur every update" -[[User:Smiley Barry|Smiley Barry]]). Including huge packet loss, ping sim of 5-10k, and keep getting 'Ruthed'. |
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| − | '''July 2007''' |
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| − | *[http://www.holymeatballs.org/second_life/us_holocaust_museum/ Virtual Curation Program Begins], a summer collaboration between GK in NYC and Washington, D.C. youth at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. |
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| − | * Launch of the [http://www.holymeatballs.org/second_life/crc_machinima_camp/ Convention on the Rights of the Child Machinima Summer Camp], run by Global Kids for UNICEF. |
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| − | '''August 2007''' |
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| − | * Global Kids' after school program, Playing 4 Keeps, releases CONSENT!, produced by the Digital Refinery, the year-end Second Life game about unethical medical prison research on African American males since World War Two. |
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| − | * The [http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/09/slcc_overview_of_nonprofit_and.html Non-Profit and Philanthropy Thread] at the third annual Second Life Community Convention is produced by Global Kids, with a strong focus on work done within Teen Second Life. |
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| − | '''September 2007 - October 2008''' |
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| − | * [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/tsl-timeline-2/ Click Here] |
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| − | * TSL Halloween Season 2008 - Check in-world event listings for more information. |
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| − | * TSL Metrics released: [http://danielvoyagerblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/teen-grid-metrics/ Click Here] |
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==Related links== |
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| − | [http://teen.secondlife.com/ |
+ | * [http://teen.secondlife.com/ Official Teen Second Life website] |
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Second_Life Teen Second Life - Wikipedia] |
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| + | * [http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/List_of_all_Second_Life_Groups_on_Flickr.com#Teen_Second_Life Teen Second Life Flickr Groups] |
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| − | [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/ |
+ | * [http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/TeenSL.aspx TSL Snapzilla] |
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Latest revision as of 18:19, 1 January 2014
Overview
The Teen Grid existed as a segregated area from the original Second Life world (Main Grid, which was initially restricted to persons aged 18+), from February the 13th 2005 to January 20th 2011.
Prior to the merger that saw both grids physically united as one, residents on Teen Grid were aged 13 to 17, and would be transferred to the Main Grid upon reaching their 18th Birthday.
Since the Grid merge, the age requirement to use Second Life has been lowered from 18 to 16. Individuals below this age limit who previously held accounts on the Teen Grid have had their inventories saved and all of their assets put on-hold until they meet the new requirements.
The rest of the former Teen Grid populous were given access to what was previously Main Grid (With the exception of "Adult" regions) and transferred alongside their assets.
Most of what had previously been Teen Grid mainland was retained (With the exception of Bannockburn and Midway Battlegrounds which were deleted, and the numerous Bay City regions which were moved to be alongside their Main Grid counterparts)
Adults can now enter Teen Grid unrestricted, as they would with publicly accessible Main Grid regions. Subsequently, much of Teen Grid is now owned by residents of Main Grid origin, with land prices rocketing and dramatically altering the Teen Grid economy.
Teen Grid began as a closed experimental project, and was initially only online during certain hours of the day (Unlike Main Grid, which was a 24 hour service). On January 1st 2006, Teen Grid became a 24 hour service.
Throughout its existence, Teen Grid has been home to an expansive and colourful military community - much of the land and content sales on the grid being combat-orientated.
On January 20th 2011, Philip Linden announced that Main Grid and Teen Grid would cease to be segregated, and gradually details of the Grid merge began to appear. Whilst various details changed prior to the final event, it became apparent that this was not another false alarm (Various Linden staff and Teen residents had stated on numerous occasions that the Grids would be merged, to no avail).
Prior to Philip Linden's announcement of the grid merge, the military community began to waver - many of the groups that had built it having members coming of age and subsequently moving to Main Grid.
This, combined with the rise of copybotting lead to a steady downfall in the economy, many content creators leaving the grid as a result or facing competition at the hands of the numerous freely-available stolen main grid items. Once the merge happened competition got even worth as teen builders and military groups could not compete with the prices or the builds established in the main grid leading to most builders leaving and military groups being disbanded.
TSL SL Wikia Pages
- Teen Sims
- Teen Locations
- Teen Maps
- Teen Grid Groups
- Teen Residents
- Teen Firsts
- Teen Records
- Teen General
- Teen Town Halls