{"id":703,"date":"2006-10-19T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2006-10-19T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:56:00","slug":"1000000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/1000000\/","title":{"rendered":"1000000"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Second Life<\/a> has hit a million residents. It’s a milestone on the way to SL becoming the 3D social WWW. Places like The Register<\/a> can mock and scorn as much as they like, but they’re missing the point. Did they see the WWW in 1994 and dismiss it all as being a pointless waste of time? Sure, Bianca’s Smut Shack served no higher purpose, but that didn’t make the web pointless. And sure, you can walk around in SL as a furry penis if you want to, but that doesn’t make SL pointless.<\/p>\n

Of course you can find some spectacularly pointless stuff in SL. But that’s true of the web, and true of any medium. Enjoy the weeding process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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