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Lucifer Baphomet · 08-06-2008, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Bigwig

Wiki says: The Metaverse is a virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. The word metaverse is a compound of the words "meta" and "universe".

Not that Bill Gibson came up with the concept long before Stephenson, or anything