I decided I’d try Second life today.
So as the designated “Last Person on Earth Who Has Never Tried Second Life,” I went to secondlife.com and filled out the new account form. On submission I was presented with a pop-up window linking me to the 90MB Secondlife client compatible with MacOS (as well as links to clients for Windows and Linux) — which I downloaded.
A few hours went by and I got back around to starting up the client and entering my login information.
My first task as a new Secondlife resident is download a new required client download of some huge size. (I just stopped it after seeing the bar at 1/3rd finished at 20 minutes).
I don’t know how they’ve managed to get millions of members. They must be really patient and unusually forgiving? Good for them.
I tried. I downloaded. I logged-in. I downloaded again. I gave up.