An event or moment · 2003 · Virtual worlds
Second Life
A persistent virtual world with avatars, economies, and relationships between people who never met.
Parasocial attachment with a body and a social graph, and the first virtual environment where the loneliness was addressed directly rather than incidentally. It also produced the first convention-attendance problem in a space with no physical convention.
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