Timeline for the website vtoreality.com : VTOR - Virtual To Reality which covers virtual reality, MMO, MMORPG, gaming, 3D and more.
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The free blog hosting that VTOR started with closed its doors with a message that they would be paying sites that used their service. VTOR records do not show ever being paid for any of the revenue generated through blogcharm.com.
Was the Bitty Browser the first third party widget added to VTOR? It was definitely the first third party widget mentioned in any blog post at VTOR and happened at post #20.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/adding-more-second-life-content-to-sidebar/22/
First post by VTOR Author Forser. He used his first post to talk about a rumor involving using mono as a new Second Life scripting language to possibly replace LSL.
Forser would go onto writing a second post on Feb 17 actually introducing himself here: http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/introduction-by-forser-jessop/21/
In writing for VTOR Forser has made a total of:
7 total published posts
1,930 total published words
from Feb 13, 2006 - August 25, 2008 when this timeline entry was last updated.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/new-scripting-language-for-secondlife-is-in-the-works/16/
The third VTOR author to post was Weirdharold Cave in VTOR Post #11 and was also the first ever VTOR post used as an author introduction.
In writing for VTOR Weirdharold Cave has made a total of:
170 total published posts
86,086 total published words
from Feb 9, 2006 - August 25, 2008 when this timeline entry was last updated.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/let-me-introduce-myself/14/
In Second Life owning more than 512m of land requires paying tier. In VTOR post #8, TD Goodliffe describes his first experience using real money to buy virtual land:
"On Friday 2/4/06 in SL, I registered a second account for the year ($72 USD). This makes my total US contributions to the game just under $200USD since 12/31/2005, which includes buying some items, premium membership fees for the year (buying a year’s worth of service is the best deal).
Saturday I had my first land tier fees coming due for $25 USD so earlier in the week I converted $7,500 Linden into USD using the “Sell $L” option, which at the then exchange rate of $281L per $1 and after the 3.5% transaction fee ended up being converted into $25.76. Gross was $26.70, but Linden Labs (LL) keeps the transaction fee. Sort of like Virtual bank fees."
It might be virtual currency, but it costs real money.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/first-experience-converting-linden-to-usd-to-pay-tier-fees/10/
TD Goodliffe, who was new to the Lindend Scripting Language writes about first paid scripting job inside the virtual world of Second Life.
He writes: "Turns out, what they wanted done was something I was able to code fairly quickly. I was paid $3,000L for the work and now have a complete script I can sell to others if I want. I set the script to copy, modify but not resell. This way the person can make as many copies as they want, modify the code but not resell."
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/my-first-paid-custom-scripting-work-in-sl-experience/9/
Archive.org shows first websnapshot taken of what the VTOR blog looked like when it was hosted on the free bloghost service blogcharm.com. There were 17 web snapshots taken total in 2006 from Feb 6, 2006 - June 12, 2006
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.blogcharm.com/vtor
Lestat was the second VTOR author to post at VTOR, following TD Goodliffe who made the first 5 posts. Lestat's first post (VTOR post #6, 106 words) was about how to take snapshots inside Second Life. In writing for VTOR Lestat has made a total of 33 total published posts, 6,964 total published words from Feb 2, 2006 - August 25, 2008 when this timeline entry was last updated.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/shortcut-for-taking-snapshots-in-sl/7/
Naughty America was the first adult-related MMO profiled in VTOR and was the 4th post ever made at VTOR.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/naughty-america-the-game-mature/6/
First post ever made to VTOR on the free blog hosting service blogcharm (which ceased to operate in January 2008). A description of what the site will be about: "VTOR will be useful to those who already have a business web presence of some kind whether it be storefront, ads, pro blogger, corporate presence site, etc. or even a personal site that they’d like to also expand into the virtual landscape of Second Life or other Massive Multiplayer Online games."
This was also the first post made by VTOR author TD Goodliffe. In writing for VTOR TD Goodliffe has made a total of:
416 total published posts
104,871 total published words
from Jan 28, 2006 - August 25, 2008 when this timeline entry was last updated.
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/welcome-to-virtual-reality/3/
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