man facebook really wanted "metaverse" but realized neal stephenson thinks they're all bastards so they had to make it store-brand huh
@kat i'm having trouble understanding what this means, did something happen?
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@Felthry facebook renamed to "Meta" because they really want to gentrify VR
@kat who's neal stephenson though and what do they have to do with it
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@Felthry guy who wrote snow crash, coined the term "metaverse," basically defined the version of VR everyone's been trying to build 30 years ago, which is why facebook is calling it "a metaverse"
@kat i'm missing a lot of context here i think
i do not know what snow crash is, we have never heard the term "metaverse" before, and we did not know of any attempts at VR from 30 years ago
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@kat nothing in particular just kind of apologizing for asking questions that are probably really basic ones because we're really used to people reacting along the lines of "how do you not know about that" and/or "stop pretending not to know things"
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@kat so i feel the need to apologize even if i guess we probably don't need to
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@kat also i tend to overexplain things when we feel like we did something wrong/awkward
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@Felthry well, snow crash is a book, "metaverse" is a term that got coined in that book, and it basically defined what a lot of people expect VR to be for like... 30 years running now haha
@kat thank you for the explanation and sorry for earlier, we got kind of overwhelmed
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@Felthry i'm not... sure what you want me to do about that haha