@tchambers Zuckerberg's metaverse only lived for three years.
Final Fantasy XIV's been running for 10 years.
World of Warcraft has been running almost 20.
Everquest has been running since 1999.
Ultima Online has been running since 1997.
These MMORPGs might not be "the metaverse" as Mark Zuckerberg defines it, or even as Neal Stephenson defined it, but I think it's the closest we've got to a working implementation so far.
@starbreaker@tchambers You can visit this open system,
ssh -p 2233 muinet@muinet.com (password muinet)
and find the first commercial MMORPG, Scepter of Goth, still running 40 years later.
@starbreaker@tchambers Bartle and I have met and discussed it and we agree development was parallel, but Scepter was inarguably the first to charge money. [Edit] Oh, there's your link to David's page, it has details I've forgotten. Here's a really old picture of David.
@starbreaker@tchambers could be. OTOH the source has been out of my hands for over 35 years, so all sorts of things could have happened to game balance in that time. What's running at Muinet is the great great grandchild of source code stolen from us way back when. You can read all about it on Scribd: tinyurl.com/2pwa4wnp
@tchambers I knew the Metaverse had jumped the shark some years ago when Microsoft, trying to get into the space Facebook-Now-Meta had carved out, demoed (at an Ignite event no less!) disembodied-torso MSTeams avatars floating in-air like something out of Hogwarts …and tried to pass it off as A Serious Thing That Everyone Must Want.
@tchambers only good thing from all this imho is solid Oculus Quest 2 player base. Kit is actually really good and well priced. There are small niche but very interesting applications outside games, and they are slowly coming alive.
As for metaverse it was such a farce that I don't know how it got past design stage. Also I just can't believe amount of money that black hole swallowed. Must be some 'fancy bookkeeping'.
@tchambers what's truly depressing is how much good in the world all that money might have done, but instead, a billionaire unilaterally decided that this was how it should be spent/burnt
@tchambers I think the meta verse is Zuck’s sophomore album and it’s become evident that his debut release was just lightning in a bottle. Sunk cost fallacy claims another self-styled tech visionary bozo.
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