Editor’s Note: I expect to be going in and adding information to this if I notice something that should be mentioned.
I find it hard to believe that I will have been a citizen of Second Life for 2 years tomorrow. I can still remember arriving on Orientation Island, going through all the tutorials, and then teleporting into the welcome area. 
The first day I wandered around the welcome area and surrounding sims, doing all the things a noob does. A few days later I had accumulated some money and went and bought a car that I later discovered to be a freebie. I promptly crashed the car off one of the roads and into a tree.
Fast-forward to October 27th, 2005. I started this publication/blog. I had one previously in The Sims Online, but I did something wrong and deleted the entire Alphaville Times blog due to stupidity the month before (I promptly asked a friend, who had been “hired” onto the team to do graphics, to head up all web services from then on).
The first story I wrote was about Linden Labs updating the Community Standards after a W-Hat attack, and a link to the Second Life Herald story about Ginko Financial. The stories to follow talked about Ginko, Anshe calling it a Ponzi scheme, and one or two more stories about her.
On New Years Eve, I held the Newsworthy awards just to continue tradition from the last few years on the Alphaville Times. The event, in my opinion, was a waste of my own time along with the other 4 people that showed up, which were just a few Ginko employees from the sim next to Pumacity, where the event was held.
In January 2006, not much happened besides changing the company that “owned” the Times’ name and a story about Ginko’s future plans at expanding their island “nation”. Sometime during this month, I found out about furries, and got my first (free) furry avatar.
In February I hired Jon Venkman to help with the editing, writing and promotion of the Times. We rented office space in Ginko Island for a week, then bought our first office on a piece of First Land in the Areumdeuli sim.(Picture to come soon, must find it). During this month, Urizenus from The Second Life Herald announced his “retirement” from the Metaverse news business.
