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Neal Stephenson, a popular science fiction author, introduced the concept of the “metaverse” in his 1992 book “Snowcrash.” It was envisioned as a vast, immersive virtual reality space where people interact with each other and digital environments in an embodied and tangible manner. The tech and gaming industries quickly adopted the term to describe all shared digital spaces that exist parallel to the physical world. The internet, or the World Wide Web as it was called, was barely nascent then, but the limited chat platforms and multiplayer text-based games of that era could be considered the initial access points to the Metaverse.