If you were born by 1990, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Second Life. In 2006, over 600 articles per day were being written about it. That was around the time the Internet was becoming fully “mainstream,” and people were fascinated by the possibility of what it might lead to. The concept of Second Life, in particular, excited the general public, perhaps because it seemed so futuristic. People began to imagine living inside of computers.

Even though most people weren't thinking about what it might be like to live inside computers around the turn of the century, the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, had been thinking about it since he was a kid growing up in the 70s. The only problems: computers weren't powerful enough and the Internet wasn't fast enough.

That all changed in 1999, and it's what allowed him to launch Second Life. Today, Second Life is home to 1 million people, and, as Philip explains in this episode of Web Masters, he thinks it's about to get a lot bigger.

For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.