What happened to Second Life since it was hyped as the Internet’s next generation a few years ago? Today tech personality and Gnomedex host Chris Pirillo offered a remarkably misguided analysis: “Nothing really ‘happened’ to it other than being overrun by people addicted to porn and gambling,” he asserts. Literally everything about that sentence is wrong, including the word “and”. Since Pirillo’s repeating a commonly held myth, it’s worth explaining why it’s so misguided here:
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