a Chinese proverb (loosely translated) goes, "when you drink from the stream, do ponder the source of the water".
something that has been at the back of my mind for several months was the question of which Linden Infohub my first avatar rezzed at, on the day that i took the momentous leap of faith of leaving Orientation Island as a white-shirted newbie.
a little bit of backstory here... my primary avatar - Veritas Raymaker - was not the first SL avatar i created. Veritas was created in May 2007.
my very first experience of Second Life actually began a full seven months earlier, in October 2006. not surprisingly, i found Second Life to be a thoroughly disorienting and pointless experience. my memories of that very first day on the Linden mainland were wandering along a road (the Infohub where i had landed was by a road, but the name of the sim had escaped me) and looking at the shops (along the road) and wondering why everything was so _deserted_.
i logged in a couple of times once or twice after that, but finding nothing much to see or do, and quite totally missing _the_point_ of SL (to the extent that such points exist to begin with), i logged off one last time, for good - or so i thought.
then came news of the Second Life Best Practices in Education 2007 conference, and the rest, as they say, is history (Veritas Raymaker was created only after i had first invested some time reading Second Life: The Official Guide.
well, i had the realisation the other day that since our inventories are sorted by chronological order, if i were to go back to my original avatar's landmarks, i might - just might - be able to use the earliest ones to infer which Infohub i would have landed at that very first day.
with bated breath i scrolled down the (short) list, and saw that the earliest landmark i had made was for a store selling (virtual) Macs. ah yes, that sounded about right.
i teleported over, and...
found that the store was there no longer.
however, it turned out that i had landed in the sim of Honeoye, and there is a _road_ running through Honeoye.
and what might there be following that road east to the adjoining sim, but the Warmouth Infohub!
so, thank you, to whoever took the time and effort to build the Warmouth Infohub. in fact, thanks to Google, we do indeed know who built it - thank you to Lewis Nerd of Pocket Protector Projects!
:-)
