Misc firsts... Unknown time. The first avatar was a beer bottle (a green bottled beer of unknown origin). The second was bob. The first windows user was melle. The first user other than the author was sketch. The first background image was the image from Pink Floyd Pulse. The first animal online was Hoot the parrot(tm). The first woman user was melle. Tue Oct 5 21:06:19 EDT 1999 Echo hooks his TV up to OpenVerse and broadcasts Rocky Horror picture show to an audience of 6 Wed Oct 6 21:15:14 EDT 1999 Joshua hooks his avatar up to a screen capture program and displays his desktop in real time. Great to show off it's usability as a conferencing tool. Sun Oct 10 14:34:49 EDT 1999 Echo hooks his tv up to the playboy channel. Full frontal nudity hour begins. Wed Oct 13 16:14:30 EDT 1999 Alan Cox visits the OpenVerse because he saw it on Freshmeat and thought it looked silly enough to try out. Mon Oct 25 13:01:42 EDT 1999 Just for kicks JP runs 50 clients on one machine.. Full GUI clients! (wow) This also sets an OpenVerse record. 57 users connected at once. Sun Nov 21 14:34:54 EST 1999 Joshua hooks up OV to a Jive Filter. Sun Dec 31 12:03:42 EST 1999 A couple of kids who will remain nameless have sex in his dad's hottub while hooked up to OV with a WebCam Sun Jan 9 02:29:26 EST 2000 The first threeway phonesex converssation involving represenatives from florida, louisana, and califronia takes place from people who met on OV. Tue Jan 11 16:32:59 EST 2000 tigert the graphics artist made famous for his work on Gnome and various other projects visits the OV. Can be qouted as saying "This is really silly, but it sure is a lot of fun!" KUDOS to echo for inviting tigert to OV!!!! Wed Jan 19 12:00:00 EST 2000 Echo uses the webcam plugin to re-transmit the most waited for hardware advancement in years.. The Transmetta Crusoe processors. Thu Jan 20 20:52:08 EST 2000 Cruise uses the background image to display the full lunar eclipse. Thu Mar 22 20:52:08 EST 2000 Gremlin uses inventive avatar design to really spruce up his name tag. Sat Apr 8 14:29:03 EDT 2000 Hal, the AI robot which makes use of the meghal code to learn from chat in OpenVerse requests an MP3 from another user after learning how to do it.