What is the 'metaverse'? I believe many people are confused and do not understand the meaning and origin of this term. I am Xiaoyan, and I will explain it to you.
The widely recognized thought source of the metaverse is from a novel by American mathematician and computer expert Professor Vernor Vinge (real name). The novel depicts the experience of controlling oneself digitally in the virtual world of the internet, competing to enhance one's strength and status just like in the real world, achieving communication between the real and virtual worlds.
To be precise, the metaverse is just an idea and concept, emphasizing the combination of virtual and real, and is an indispensable part of a complete ecological chain, which includes the internet that people recognize in their lives.
The internet is indispensable in people's lives. The internet, also known as the Internet (internetwork), originated in the United States in 1969. It is defined as a network formed by the interconnection of computers. Some say that in today's world, without the internet, one cannot move an inch; indeed, now when we go out, we need to show health codes, use mobile payments for shopping, purchase train tickets with a single click, and shop online, watch movies online, and so on. In 1989, a protocol called the World Wide Web was introduced in the history of internet application popularization, which is now referred to as web1.0.
web1.0 was the initial sprouting of the internet, transitioning to an interactive era, shifting from traditional subscriptions to books, newspapers, etc. in reality to the internet, where one can simply click with a device and jump to web pages to browse the content information needed. web1.0 was just the era of the internet passively receiving information at that time.
In just a few decades, we now see companies like Google, Tencent, NetEase, and Weibo.