banner New World Notes the plain version removes the extra jquery content nav « Virtual World Christmas Photos Warm Enough to Evoke Real World Nostalgia | Main entry Last week a veteran Second Life user was summoned back to the virtual world after an absence of many years, because the Stargate teleport system she had created for it no longer worked. This was not a surprise, seeing as the teleporters have been sitting there in SL for roughly 12 years, and that they still depend on a Google-based runtime she had created in 2011 -- when she was a teenage hacker still living with her parents, in England. What is perhaps surprising, is this: Katharine Berry now works at Google. If you are yourself a veteran SLer, you almost surely know her name: Back in 2007, when she was only 15, Katharine created an acclaimed web-to-SL chat and map interface , then a cou...