Originally uploaded to "the drax files" by my good friend Bernhard Drax, here's a high-quality copy of the story about Second Life's 4th Birthday "SL4B took place on 9 sims from June 23rd to June 30th. A huge display or resident driven creativity. SignpostMarv Martin gave the Draxtor a tour...."
Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden), the then CEO of Linden Lab, gave a speech (dated June 26th, 2004) during Second Life's First Birthday, as well as answering questions from Residents all over the world.
Dr Jim Purbrick (aka Babbage Linden) did a presentation at Lang.NET 2009, showing how Second Life had progressed since the Lang.NET 2006 presentation.
Cory Ondrejka & Dr. James Purbick representing Linden Lab at the Microsoft Lang.NET Conference on 2nd August 2006. "Jim and I are going to kinda tag-team this; I'm going to start out with a more general overview of what Second Life is, why scripting is important to us and how we got to the point of looking at Mono in CLI- at which point I will hand it off to Jim, who as the person who has been unfortunately having to do that, he can talk with more expertise on that side of it..."
Zai Lynch pointed out that this historical video- showing what Second Life was like way back in 2001- should really be include in the Virtual History archives!
The official trailer used to promote Second Life in 2003