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Comment by FartyMcFarter

4 months ago

I think they were trying to disassociate themselves from the PR disasters Facebook was facing back then (privacy related IIRC).

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etempleton  4 months ago

Oh, I know, but they could have named themselves anything. They believed in the metaverse, They thought it was the next big thing. The same way Zuckerburg thought voice assistants, and AI will be a thing.

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