Pfft. The Microsoft product that I am paid to peddle in my day job, has used the term Metaverse for its central DB for over a decade, it's not a new term at all

Pfft. The Microsoft product that I am paid to peddle in my day job, has used the term Metaverse for its central DB for over a decade, it's not a new term at all. It's also been used heavily in science-future writing for probably longer than that. This reminds me of the time when all the young Go programmers stole the term Gopher from us.