The metaverse has recently become a popular topic , but it ’ s not exactly a new concept – the idea has been around for decades , born shortly after the internet was created

The birth of the World Wide Web The development of the World Wide Web started in 1989 with Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN , an international scientific organisation based in Geneva , Switzerland . By the end of 1990 , the first web page was served on the open internet , and , in 1991 , people outside of CERN were invited to join this new web community .

The term ‘ Metaverse ’ is created In 1992 , Neal Stephenson wrote a science fiction novel called Snow Crash , which talked about a virtual realitybased Metaverse , where people would spend most of their time in the virtual world .

Digital twins The concept and model of the digital twin was publicly introduced in 2002 by Michael Grieves . Based on the idea that a digital informational construct about a physical system could be created as an entity on its own , this digital information would be a ‘ twin ’ of the information that was embedded within the physical system .

16 October 2022