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SL - What it might have been...
Alan Edison
Ty Zvezda
Join date: 28 Jun 2004
Posts: 420
06-14-2005 11:09
I was browsing through the net whilst I came across the guy's website who was asked to do the first SL website...

http://www.eriqchangstudio.com/secondlife.html

That's a pic of it... it looks great but it wasn't used because it converyed SL as too much of a game instead of a medium to create whatever you want.

TBH, If i'd have seen that website when I first heard of SL, I'da joined straight away, it looks a lot betetr than the old one with the womans face on it, but I know how they didn't want SL to be thought of as a game.

He was also gonna make the LL logo...

http://www.eriqchangstudio.com/id_linden.html

The SL logo...

http://www.eriqchangstudio.com/id_secondlife.html

Here's his main website...

http://www.eriqchangstudio.com/indexpage.html
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Enabran Templar
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Join date: 26 Aug 2004
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06-14-2005 11:17
Whoa, that's *very* interesting! Thanks for digging this up. :)
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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Join date: 10 Aug 2004
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06-14-2005 11:28
That's very spiffy looking work! I love it.
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Alan Edison
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Join date: 28 Jun 2004
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06-14-2005 13:47
I'm wondering if the hand was LL's idea or an idea from that guys art that LL decided to use.

I personally prefer the quality of that work to the stuff we have now, however it does portrey SL as too much of a game.
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Cocoanut Koala
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Join date: 7 Feb 2005
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06-14-2005 14:21
I wondered that, too. What does TBH mean?

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Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
06-14-2005 14:30
TBH = To Be Honest

I REALLY like those website designs, they are mystically whimsical. That's a great find, Alan, I don't know how you found them -- please share how, hehehe -- but eh... you know what bothers me about the current SL website on repeated reads? TOO MUCH WHITE SPACE. Some is fine, but like, the current CS page has a lot of junk gutter on the side, making the page needlessly long to scroll through.

Contrast these two:

http://secondlife.com/comstandards.php
http://secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php

The first one's the older one, surprisingly enough. Ugh.

I very much like that simple, effective "BE REBORN" slogan. It carries quasispiritual overtones, which doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.
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Alan Edison
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06-14-2005 14:41
I found that site when I was nobbishly (not noobishly :P) searchin for 'second life' in google image search.

Yes Torley, that 'Be Reborn' slogan is cool and the colours of the logo are also nice. The whiteness of the new website was cool for a while, but white emptiness is sorta boring now, however the black website, before the one we have now was ugly... LOL :P
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Alan Palmerstone
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06-14-2005 18:32
Cool find. It is a very nicely done site design. I am curious about one thing, though. The site pics mention "2.0". Since we have not been there yet, I am wondering if at one time way back we were supposed to go to a 2.0 version and didn't?
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Fiona Peregrine
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06-14-2005 19:19
I'm impressed you found this! :) I really like the current logo as opposed to the one he suggested. The current logo implies a creation process while the other he proposed says nada to me. I do prefer his website design, it's lovely work.

Amazing what pops up on Google isn't it?
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Eggy Lippmann
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06-15-2005 02:37
I've known about this website... since beta! :D
I imagine the 2.0 was supposed to be what Second Life is... as opposed to LindenWorld. See the "coming fall 2002"?
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Alan Edison
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06-15-2005 03:11
The site design that guy was making slightly reminds me of There... The sorta flat cartoonish shapes and twirls.

If you look closely at the screenshots the guy has on the website, SL looks 2D! lol :p
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Malachi Petunia
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06-15-2005 04:47
From: someone
...If you look closely at the screenshots the guy has on the website, SL looks 2D! lol :p
Yes, 3D was only added in v1.1; prior to that, SL was black and white too, it was sorta like Steamboat Willie with scripting and griefers, oh and chat was a late-comer too, we called that version "Talkies". Kids these days... :p

(Let's see if I can get Eggy to add this to the SL History site)
Zuzu Fassbinder
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Join date: 17 Sep 2004
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06-15-2005 09:11
wow, the hand with the "be reborn" slogan gave me flashbacks of "Logan's Run"

There is no sanctuary....
Khamon Fate
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06-15-2005 10:13
From: Zuzu Fassbinder
wow, the hand with the "be reborn" slogan gave me flashbacks of "Logan's Run"

There is no sanctuary....

I haven't reread that in years. Gosh it's probably boxed up in the attic by now. Only in the book, there is sancutary.
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