Tom Boellstorff's articles BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY The Long History Of The Metaverse Key Takeaways: Many aspects of the current metaverse were familiar 143 years ago. Multi-user dungeons, or MUDs, arose in the second half of the 20th century. Virtual worlds with graphics, including avatars, date back to the 1970s and 1980s. Second Life originally had “point-to-point teleportation” (P2P). In 2021, someone paid $450,000 for land next to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY The Long History Of The Metaverse Key Takeaways: Many aspects of the current metaverse were familiar 143 years ago. Multi-user dungeons, or MUDs, arose in the second half of the 20th century. Virtual worlds with graphics, including avatars, date back to the 1970s and 1980s. Second Life originally had “point-to-point teleportation” (P2P). In 2021, someone paid $450,000 for land next to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked