To celebrate Lively's birthday, I'm going to post my memories of the rooms I used to hang out in... and their owners. Let me say, first of all, that before lively I hated online chats - which i found very stupid - and VR - I had tried SL and found it appalling, besides being extremely difficult. But this virtual world was different... so i started to hang out in it.
I'll be following a sort of chronological order...as much as i can remember at least! 
So there you go...
Part I - EXAMBITIONS
One of the first rooms to attract my attention - perhaps because of its strange name - was Exambitions. Both floor and walls were entirely occupied by frames, each one running a slideshow showing images of things, places and, most of all, famous people from the past and the present. There i met a funny John Doe avatar wearing a camera, who told me that Exambitions had been born of his two interests - history and photography. I don't remember the av's nickname - real name Yaniv. It had taken him quite a long time to create this room, as you can imagine!Yaniv was gifted with a wicked sense of humour, so it was fun chatting with him. He disappeared from Lively very soon, but we kept in touch on live messenger for a while. A few months later, when I told him Lively had been closed down and we had emigrated to SL and other 3D worlds, he said: "well, I emigrated to 1st life....MINE!"
The day after meeting Yaniv for the first time, I met a young Palestinian, Santana, whose family had lost their land and emigrated to Jordan, and i thought, "Wow, this VR can really bring people together..." I've always wondered... what would have happened if I had tried to bring Yaniv and Santana into the same room?
Look forward to next installment....
laura 
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