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		Tenoke on Oct 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is the metaverse? No, it's a popular term that has gained a lot of usage in the last 2 years[0] coined in Snow Crash in 1992[1]. You might not have heard it but if you read a lot about tech or follow the right people on Twitter (often intersected with crypto and NFTs in particular) it would've been hard to miss it[2]. 0. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Metavers... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse 2. https://twitter.com/search?q=metaverse&src=typed_query

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