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In 1999, he founded Linden Lab (LL). Andrew Linden stated that Linden Lab started as a hardware company geared towards the research and development of haptics.
↑ The video is taken from the blog post "Historical Movie - LindenWorld August 2001"
The original San francisco regions, from November of 2002, included Clara, Clyde, Da Boom, Federal, Freelon, Hawthorne, Minna, Natoma, Ritch, Shipley, Stanford, Stillman, Taber, Varney, Welsh, and Zoe.
While population and land slowly grew, Linden Lab released Second Life in June 2003.
The first Second Life trailer was shown in 2003:
The first Linden official blog post was made by Philip Linden on October 4, 2004 on the first Official Second Life Blog.
Teens counted down to 1000 Residents on December 21, 2005.
In late 2005, Linden Lab removed most Telehubs on the grid, opening the way for "direct teleport" from one point to another.
In March 2006, Global Kids was the first educational organization to enter TSL, opening an island.
On March 17, 2007, Blue and Philip Linden hosted a townhall meeting on Global Kids island about the past, present, and future of TSL.
The AWG had its first meeting on September 13, 2007.
On July 3rd, 2008, M Linden came to the Teen Grid and hosted a TSL special speech about Second Life's 5th Birthday.
In early 2009, the TSL Mentors 2.0 program was shut down by Linden Lab.
For Second Life's 6th Birthday in 2009, SL6B Teen region was moved over to the Main Grid, and was attached to the SL6B regions.
In February 2010, the TSL forums were integrated into the new Second Life Forums.
On January 21, 2011, after 1 PM Pacific TSL merged with the Main Grid.
In August 2013, Linden Lab was Not supporting Liquid Mesh.
In December 2013, the Lab announced support of Liquid Mesh and the more complete solution Fitted Mesh.
On 15th May 2014, Linden Lab announced 24 new mesh avatars.
On 6th November 2015, Linden Lab announced 16 new classic avatars featuring fitted mesh items and better style.
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