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Mark Zuckerberg makes a ‘mwahahaha’ metaverse move

Mark Zuckerberg makes a ‘mwahahaha’ metaverse move

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Virginia Heffernan
Oct 25, 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg with a laptop, facing the camera
Zuckerberg, 2005. (Wiki photo)

The term “metaverse” is suddenly ubiquitous, but it first appeared in 1992, in Neal Stephenson’s novel “Snow Crash.”

That engrossing novel — beloved of sci-fi fans and serious critics alike — is set mostly in a corporate-sponsored Los Angeles in the 21st century, when the city is no longer part of the U.S., the currency is i…

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