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The Metaverse Economy
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The Metaverse Economy

by Arunkumar Krishnakumar, Theodora Lau
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 7m
English
Kogan Page
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02

The Future is Web3

“This is for everyone.”

Tim Berners-Lee

The world’s first web page (http://info.cern.ch) was launched on August 6, 1991 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN.1 The page was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer, describing the web and showing users how to create web pages as a means to share information between devices.

It is hard to believe that it has been more than 30 years since then and the internet, as we know it, has evolved from a static web serving up information to a more collaborative environment that we have come to depend on, socialize on, and exchange information on.

The emergence of social networks, blogs, and other content platforms ...

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