Fifteen years ago early this month, Second Life's most
popular then was collapsing, and the one that would replace it would be
born as a result of it's demise. In early and mid 2010, the Emerald
third-party viewer had been the most popular one. But in August came a
Directed Denial Of Service attack that was caused by computers using the
viewer at the time, resulting in what came to be known as the
Emeraldgate scandal. On September
1, 2010, Team Emerald announced it would soon be folding. Two
days later, on September 3, former Emeraldgate member Jessica Lyon
announced she had formed a new team and had made a new viewer "from the
ashes of Emerald," Team Phoenix and it's Phoenix viewer.
A few years
later, the Phoenix viewer would be retired and replaced by the Firestorm
viewer, the team having renamed itself Firestorm as well. Over the years, the team has faced a number of challenges large and small. And eventually Jessica would step down from managing on a daily basis. But Team Firestorm continues on.
Bixyl Shuftan
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