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The destruction of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s virtual
Second Life island in 2007 was considered an act of terrorism.
“Miscreants have hacked into the ABC Island inside the virtual reality world of
Second Life, reducing the two-month-old facility to rubble,” the Sydney Morning Herald’s Stephen Hutcheon wrote.
Everything on the island had been razed except for a digital transmission tower.
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For three years now, Jonathan Martin and his wife have been selling home furnishings and decorations. “Tchotchkes, really,” he said, “stuff you put in your home.” Their shop, Sunny Bungalow, not only stayed open every day of the pandemic last year but also saw its sales double. “We’re trying to figure this out ourselves,” Martin said.
It helps, of course, that Sunny Bungalow is a virtual store, found in Second Life, the online world where people have lived parallel existences through their avatars since 2003. And it helps that the tchotchkes are digital antiques, truffled out in other Second Life stores and markets.
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