This month’s Wired calls out the digital model of Hanover’s Main Street as one of twenty sights to see in the online community Second Life.

A researcher at the Homeland Security-funded Institute for Security Technology Studies started the project as part of the Institute’s Synthetic Environments for Emergency Response Simulation (run by its ER3 Center).

The researcher later joined The Electric Sheep Company, which the Institute hired to build the model.

Satchmo Prototype has posted photos of the model, and Electric Sheep has 64 more photos.

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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link below fixed.]
[Update 11.30.2006: The Dartmouth has an article on Hanover in Second Life.]
[Update 09.24.2006: Post rewritten, Electric Sheep information added.]