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who came up with the "metaverse" word? is this a marketing trick to sell me something? or is this an attempt for the media/companies to regain influence on th
by Shadonototra 5y ago
who came up with the "metaverse" word?
is this a marketing trick to sell me something?
or is this an attempt for the media/companies to regain influence on the internet?
"metaverse", i never heard of that word in casual conversations
i'm curious to know about its origin, and why it is linked to NFT scams
- detaro 5y agoIt's a term from Snow Crash, for the 3D virtual worlds there. And well, a world which requires selling virtual stuff and virtual space to people is kind of the thing of the web3/crypto folks right now.
- Shadonototra 5y agoThanks, i'll look into Snow Crash, that looks interesting
- herval 5y agoNeal Stephenson’s, but I think it caught on due to Zuckerberg calling Facebook VR platform “the metaverse”, and it got immediately coopted by the cryptosphere (I remember seeing Decentraland first use the term, and they’re affiliated to some other big NFT players, like BAYC, so they’re definitely very good at generating hype). Roblox, Fortnite and others were already using the term for a little while, but it seems it became a larger meme after FB’s keynote https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=Metaverse https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
- captn3m0 5y agoCrypto is really good at co-opting terms. Crypto, Metaverse, Web 3.0, Decentralization.