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Understanding the concept of Metaverse
The Worldwide Web
You wouldn’t be reading any of this if not for the invention of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s invention – the worldwide web. Accessing the websites you know today traces its origins back to the British engineer’s invention!
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Airplane
Traveling by ship was okay. But traveling by air has proved to be much better. To get to other foreign destinations faster, the best way today is by plane and we owe it to the Wright brothers who had invented it back in 1903 when they had successfully made the first sustained flight. Abbas Ibn Fi...
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Electricity
There is no single man who can be truly credited for the discovery of electricity, but some of the names which would pop up in the list include Benjamin Franklin and his kite experiment, and Nikola Tesla who is often dubbed as the father of electricity because of his understandings of this force ...
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Telephone
The name of the inventor should surely ring a bell. Alexander Graham Bell thought of how to communicate even from afar by converting the human voice into electric signals. He was the proponent of long-distance communication, and his development of the telephone had been the forerunner of the comm...
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Light bulb
Imagine being in a room. A dark room. Candles can give you light but that light just isn’t enough in the dead of night. Thankfully, Thomas Edison did not give up even if it had taken him almost a hundred tries before he had perfected his invention of the light bulb back in 1879. Joseph Swan made ...
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The double slash
Tim Berners Lee developed HTML and created the World Wide Web, but his major regret relates to the '//' at the beginning of every web address.
"Really, if you think about it, it doesn't need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //," he said.
Innovation Thrives On Reinventing And Reusing The Old
Ideas are often similarly repurposed along the way.
Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a tool for scholars, but in the course of time, it became a network for shopping, social networking and pornography, among other things.
Johannes Gutenberg found an innovative...
The New Internet
The Metaverse is the successor to the internet, and all the worlds in the Metaverse are equivalent to the internet's websites. We can now visualise and experience what the worldwide web can offer in a 3D user interface.
This new interface will reveal new opportunities for ...
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