[Opensim-dev] How Was OpenSim "Born"?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Len Brown wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
>      I know that the various versions of the viewer are derived from 
> Linden Lab releasing the viewer source code as open source, but what 
> about the server side of things?
> 
>      Is what we now call OpenSim the result of taking what we know about 
> the viewer and working backwards to how we presume the server pushes the 
> information to it?  This would be my guess.
> 
>      I don't ever recall there being any releases of the early server 
> source code ever made available.  This thought hit me when I started 
> wondering how Open Simulator originated if the Linden Lab server source 
> was never made publicly available.
> 
>      The Open Simulator site dist directory goes back to OpenSim 0.4 so 
> I'm a bit mystified.  I started messing with OpenSim at version 0.6 and on.
> 
>      Thanks for any info offered on this topic.  I've been active in 
> Second Life since December 2003 and am just wanting to flesh out a bit 
> of the historical side of things, when it comes to OpenSim beginnings.

Len, have you seen this OpenSim history wiki page?

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/History

If you dig up any extra information it would be very welcome on there too.

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