Sorry, Snapz, we’re discontinuing steaks to keep our restaurant stock value going up.

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It’s similar to how we went from “machine learning” to “AI”.

It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant “metaverse” is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.