I’ve had this draft in my “stuff to complete” forever. As I was reviewing my drafts I saw this and started to laugh – have you been to Second Life recently? I sure haven’t. Here were the facts that I had picked up, which are probably horribly out of date – hey, what more do you want from a Saturday post?
As Vice President of Systems Engineering, Ian Wilkes is responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure at Linden Lab.
LSL – Linden Scripting Language (they have their own….)
Grey Goo (This was sort of a virus that threatened to consume the island until it was stopped).
956 square KM, 8x San Francisco, 100TB of user-created content, 30 million concurrent scripts
Monolithic C++ App
Linux
Closed Source
Started selling in 2003