LunarStorm logo, and users online on Saturday, October 1, 2005, at 11:00 AM.
LunarStorm is the world's first virtual communitywebsite operated by a company called LunarWorks in Varberg, Sweden. The website is well known in Sweden, with in excess of 1.2 million users, most of them youths, and has now opened a service in the UK. The average user age of the Swedish version is officially 18. [1]. The predecessor to Lunarstorm was called "StajlPlejs" (which means StylePlace in English). Having been around since 1996, Lunarstorm officially launched on January 1, 2000 with venture capital backing. Very often around 30-40000 are online at the same time. The founder is named Rickard Cederfors and lives in Malmö in Skåne, Sweden under the alias of Ebbe Eriksson. The name itself comes from Rickards girlfriend nickname. Image File history File links Lunarstorm_logo,_Oktober_1,_2005. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A virtual community or online community is a group of people that primarily or initially communicates or interacts via the Internet. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... LunarWorks is a Swedish company. ... Coordinates: Country Sweden County Halland County Province Halland Charter 1100 Area - City km² Population - City (2006) 25,000 Time zone CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) Website: www2. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ...
Any trusted users should beware however, as lunarstorm is systematically going through them and annoying them to them extent that they either leave or lunar deletes them. You should all join lunar now, just so that you can leave and make them feel gutted.
LunarStorm is a bit like a combination of Internet services such as America Online and Friendster, allowing users to utilize the information-sharing elements of the Internet within secure confines.
LunarStorm is tightly focused on social interaction for young people, with members having the option of creating e-mail addresses, personal web pages, blogs and photo albums, as well as participating in chat rooms and message boards.
LunarStorms site is based on code that is a little over four years old.
Lunarstorm is an Internet service that lets members create personal pages, upload photographs and add entries to their online diaries.
Lunarstorm more resembles Cyworld, a service run by SK Telecom that has a 90 percent penetration among South Koreans in their late teens and early 20s.
Lunarstorm's impact on Swedish youth is widely recognized.