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my thought exactly. We've had virtual worlds and communities as long as we've had the internet, and the idea of carrying "stuff" from one to the other never wor
by riffraff 5y ago
my thought exactly. We've had virtual worlds and communities as long as we've had the internet, and the idea of carrying "stuff" from one to the other never worked out.
So my bet is that there will never be The Metaverse just like there never was The Forum, The MMORPG, The MUD.
We may still have useful/fun stuff in specific VR worlds, of course.
- indigochill 5y agoBut interestingly there is The Internet. But perhaps because that exists, there's no need for the interconnectedness promised by the other things because the internet already delivers it. Or perhaps the future holds multiple internets (especially with political regions doing their best to balkanize the legality of various uses of the internet)?
- aahortwwy 5y agoThere was an attempt to connect MUDs together using a protocol called InterMUD, but it never really caught on.