Hippo
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Oh the great hippo! Stomper of gnomes! Savior of all Second Life! How we worship thee!
The tale of the hippo began simply enough in a forum thread by Darwin Appleby in which he strikes a long lasting topic about hippos, which became one of the longest lasting threads on the SL forums. It was then carried over into the grid when Hikaru Yamamoto started a zoo in which a small hippo family could be found. This small yet humble family loved to be fed by visitors and soon became a crowd favorite! Soon enough hippo statues and avatars began to appear through-out the grid! This hippo mania did not end with the residents themselves. Instead, it was caught by the Lindens themselves and seeped into the core of Second Life (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-H)! Whenever bugs were found (planted by evil gnomes) the hippos would be unleashed and they would skip through SL stopping the bugs and gnomes while residents were kept out (hippos are very shy about their job)!
Some may have forgotten about the beloved hippo, but to others the hippos shall never die! Living on as the legendary folk heros that they really are!
Do not forget to celebrate SL National Hippo Day on Febuary 15th!
(HIPPO was also the name of a Linden-made object that you could put keywords into and it would detect other people wearing HIPPOs that had the same keywords in them as well. Example: Oz Spade has "cats" in his HIPPO, Bob Boberson has "cats" in his HIPPO, Oz walks past Bob, and both of their HIPPOs light up. The HIPPOs still work, but are not used by many residents, becoming one of those things that "never really caught on".)
[edit] Links
- Forum Link: Original Hippo Thread That Started It All! (Locked :( )
- New World Notes: Hikaru's Zoo featured in this old Archived NWN
- Forum Link: "New Hippo Thread" Since Original Became Locked
- Forum Link: Febuary 15th declaired SL National Hippo Day
- Forum Link: History Of The Hippo (not really a good explanation)
- Forum Link: HIPPO Device announced
- Forum Link: Undocumented 1.1 addition, note David Linden's post on page 2 (Version 1.1.0)
- Forum Link: Hippos seep into Linden Lab
