LunarStorm

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LunarStorm logo, and users online on Saturday, March 29, 2007, at 6:30 AM.
LunarStorm logo, and users online on Saturday, March 29, 2007, at 6:30 AM.

LunarStorm is the world's first virtual community website operated by a company called LunarWorks in Varberg, Sweden. The website is well known in Sweden, with over 1.5 million users, most of them youths, the average user age of the Swedish version hovering around 18. LunarStorm [1] has now officially opened a UK version of its service. The predecessor to Lunarstorm was called "StajlPlejs" (a Swedish transliteration of the English phrase "StylePlace"). Founded in 1996, Lunarstorm officially launched on January 1, 2000 with venture capital backing. Today, Lunarstorm commonly has 30 to 40 thousand users online at the same time. Started by Rickard Eriksson, a resident of Varberg, Sweden the site was named after his girlfriend's user name from StajlPlejs.


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Polish version of LunarStorm is Epuls.pl.

  1. ^ PressBox.co.uk press release, November 2005


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