Watch This: The Size of Second Life Even Now

Luca Grabacr made this pretty great machinima infographic illustrating the size of Second Life as it exists today:

All the data seems fairly up to date, but I haven't seen it presented as dramatically as here. Why no, I didn't now it would take 23,175 days to walk across the entirety of Second Life's land mass (if all the sims were laid end to end) -- so that would make SL's total length like 772 miles? (Assuming you walked 30 miles a day.) Checking with Luca on her sources now.* Also love Luca's mention of the first Linden-made object in Second Life:

Wish there was a mention of Steller Sunshine's beanstalk, the first user-made content in Second Life, but maybe that could come in a sequel (hint hint).

*Update, 12:52pm: Luca says: "I got the map size data from gridsurvey.com after I thought about making the video, and the concurrency from another site, then I calculate the time needed to travel across the map using the movement speed data I found on the SL Wiki." So we're all set.

@slhamlet Thanks! Well, I was walking around in this urban neighborhood type sim then the whole idea just came to me :)

— .Luca (@nateabisu) November 4, 2015

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[adec]

Is that really the earliest object v the Bean stalk ?

[Wagner James Au]

Actually that's a very good point, because the beanstalk went up in March 2002.

[Rin]

I always thought that LL should have made this statue into thier logo ... instead of that hand they have instead.

[R3beccaF]

Last time I investigated SL history, The Man was the oldest build, ported over from the Alpha version, but the oldest object was Philip Linden's beach ball. Bizarrely, as the beach ball was added to the default inventory, there are now theoretically 43+ million original artefacts.

[Amanda Dallin]

Since Philip's beach ball is copy there are now theoretically infinite original artifacts.