The Enchanted Garden and The Virtual World

The other day, one of my picture book readers asked me whether my little picture book, the "The Enchanted Garden" has been inspired by 'Second Life'... one of the popular virtual social community on the Internet.

I told her, that no... my little book wasn't Inspired by Second Life...
my little book has been inspired by the Art Community of RDNA
and Renderosity that I am a proud member of them.

She somehow didn't want to believe me.
So, I told her... please go to the Internet and look for the date when
Second Life first appeared on the Web. She went and looked up the
data that I asked for.

Here is the date, taken from :

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:7l3ZoiGSfzoJ:slhistory.org/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages+2003+second+life+timeline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1


and here is the quote:

"Closed beta began on November 2002, with public beta opening on April 2003."

And I joined to the virtual artist community at: Mar 2, 2003

Anyway, I though that I share with you, gentle reader the above conversation,

in order to show you... my book was written before 'Second Life' come to the Web.

Anyway, I am really happy to the success of 'Second Life'.... because I think it
is doing a great job on the domain of social networking.... with a great emphases
on the possibility of earning money in the virtual world.