We at the SL History Wiki have transcribed the list of 1500+ people who appear on the "Beta Contributors" monument.
You can see it here:
http://history.secondserver.net/index.php/Beta_Contributors
We also compiled a list, using nothing but the "Find" button, of those who still have a valid account, and started highlighting their names with a little bullet.
However, Oz Spade said he wasn't sure if the people would want it mentioned or not.
What do you think?
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-14-2005 05:14
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Zoey Jade
Registered User
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05-14-2005 06:02
I think this is great!
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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05-14-2005 07:40
Yay thanks for getting Chip, Torrid, Mistress and every other Midnight but me, I appreciate it
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
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05-14-2005 07:41
omg, people got here before me!!! IT ISN'T FAIR!!!!!
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
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05-14-2005 07:44
Great monument Eggy!
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Merwan Marker
Booring...
Join date: 28 Jan 2004
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05-14-2005 07:44
Wow good job Eggy - 'cepting of course your omission of Cris - please fix.
Also, with only 1 Marker on the list (Steve Marker) and was wonder if this name is a typo: Trouble Maker There are no other Maker's.  _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-14-2005 09:26
Aimee -
There seems to be some confusion here. We did not build the monument or choose the list of names to be included in it. The monument was built in 2003 by Ryan Linden and currently resides in the middle of Plum. The list of names on the wiki is, and will always be, the list inscribed on the monument. Cristiano - After posting this message, I will immediately log in and double check to see if your name is there, but if it isn't, it means you were not among the 1500ish most active Beta users. I should stress that this is an article about a specific monument, and does not intend to be a complete list of Beta users, or of people who are still active. As such, I will not add you to that page, though we certainly can, and probably will, make a different article about the last remaining old timers. Nothing personal against you, of course. You, and everyone else, are very welcome and actively encouraged to write about themselves, their second life, and projects they have been involved with. Merwan - I guess that means Marker was apparently not a very popular surname in Beta! Trouble Maker was indeed a valid account: /invalid_link.html You can search the forum member list, it has every account ever created: http://forums.secondlife.com/memberlist.php?do=search _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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05-14-2005 09:32
Cristiano - After posting this message, I will immediately log in and double check to see if your name is there, but if it isn't, it means you were not among the 1500ish most active Beta users. I should stress that this is an article about a specific monument, and does not intend to be a complete list of Beta users, or of people who are still active. As such, I will not add you to that page, though we certainly can, and probably will, make a different article about the last remaining old timers. Nothing personal against you, of course. You, and everyone else, are very welcome and actively encouraged to write about themselves, their second life, and projects they have been involved with. Eggy, Sorry but the fact that my name is not on their is some kind of oversight then. Mistress, Torrid and I started 3 days apart. Do you have any idea what any of the other Midnights on that list beside Chip, Torrid and Mistress did? Yet they are all there, except me - I was very active during beta, certainly more so than a lot of the unknown Midnights that are on the list. It's fine, I was just pointing it out, because it is in fact, innacurate. _____________________
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Prokofy Neva
Virtualtor
Join date: 28 Sep 2004
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05-14-2005 09:34
Cristiano - After posting this message, I will immediately log in and double check to see if your name is there, but if it isn't, it means you were not among the 1500ish most active Beta users. I should stress that this is an article about a specific monument, and does not intend to be a complete list of Beta users, or of people who are still active. As such, I will not add you to that page, though we certainly can, and probably will, make a different article about the last remaining old timers. Nothing personal against you, of course. You, and everyone else, are very welcome and actively encouraged to write about themselves, their second life, and projects they have been involved with. Heheh this is all called "circling the wagons". _____________________
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Merwan Marker
Booring...
Join date: 28 Jan 2004
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05-14-2005 09:41
Excellent! re. the Marker name.
Eggy a suggestion - why not make the list inclusive of all beta peeps? Then set up a couple of bullet-type highlights for those on the Monument and those with active accounts, etc. Because someone left Cristiano's name off the monument gives you the opportunity to clarify the historical record. Seems that if a beta member is pointing out they are not on the list that you really ought to add them - which is a good precedent. _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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05-14-2005 09:43
Merwan,
I am not worried about my name being on a list on a monument. A historical record of an inaccurate list is still a valid historical record - it doesn't change anything. I was just pointing out that the list does have missing names. Beryl Greenacre is also not listed, yet she was very active in beta as well - it is when we became friends. _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
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05-14-2005 09:44
Nope, you're not on it - but your former identity is - Martinito Starseeker - which may explain why your present account didn't make the list.
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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05-14-2005 09:50
Nope, you're not on it - but your former identity is - Martinito Starseeker - which may explain why your present account didn't make the list. Eggy, The odd part is the previous account I signed into with maybe 5 times maximum - which shows the innacuracy of that list. _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-14-2005 09:51
Eggy a suggestion - why not make the list inclusive of all beta peeps? Merwan, that would be 30,000 people As I said, the article is about the monument. We can make a separate one about beta people in general. Heck, I don't even know why we have that huge list in the first place, it's not really useful information. _____________________
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James Miller
Village Idiot
Join date: 9 Jan 2003
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05-14-2005 10:47
Beryl Greenacre is also not listed, yet she was very active in beta as well - it is when we became friends. As far as I know, Beryl wasn't in Second Life during beta. She joined the evening of June 23, 2003, the day SL went live. _____________________
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
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05-14-2005 10:53
Aimee - There seems to be some confusion here. We did not build the monument or choose the list of names to be included in it. The monument was built in 2003 by Ryan Linden and currently resides in the middle of Plum. The list of names on the wiki is, and will always be, the list inscribed on the monument. Oops sorry my bad. Still great monument. Yay Ryan. _____________________
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Talila Liu
Micro Builder
Join date: 29 Jan 2004
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05-14-2005 10:58
 I found my beta name on that list...>.> <.< And I was only on the last week and tried to make some inn... Lol |
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
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05-14-2005 11:04
I'd rather not have anyone know I'm still active
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-14-2005 11:07
Beryl wasn't in Second Life during beta. AHA! Beryl is a noobie! FIC membership revoked! _____________________
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Lash Xevious
Gooberly
Join date: 8 May 2004
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05-14-2005 11:29
Looking at the list, it has dawned on me that I encountered a buttload of Beta people in my first month as a newb. I wish I took pictures.
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
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05-14-2005 11:44
Looking at the list, it has dawned on me that I encountered a buttload of Beta people in my first month as a newb. I wish I took pictures. We're really not that hard to find -- and usually not that photogenic, either. _____________________
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Edav Roark
Bounty Hunter
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
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05-14-2005 12:49
Eggy,
Edav Nomad, the one I had for beta, wasn't very active yet he is on the list. I was only in beta for a few weeks before it went live and I payed for about a month after beta. I might still be able to log onto him. _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-14-2005 12:55
It's not my fault! LL collected that list. I have no idea what metric they used. It could have just been the time they chose to collect that data. High scores have been known to fluctuate wildly from week to week.
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Simon Metalhead
Rock Star
Join date: 26 May 2003
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05-14-2005 12:59
Hmm kewl interesting list... i really don't recall seeing many Metalheads around, even back during beta
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Marilyn Murphy
Obeys Her Toaster
Join date: 23 Jul 2003
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05-14-2005 13:47
the murphy clan was once 18 strong i see. and now, sigh, decimated in the wars of 03,
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