After seeing the movie 'The Matrix', Philip Rosedale started a dot-com company in 1999 and attempted to build a full-body virtual reality rig. He soon pivoted to creating a virtual world on the Web. To this day, he's still come closer to creating the metaverse than Mark Zuckerberg ever will... https://cybercultural.com/p/second-life-metaverse-1999/ #InternetHistory #Metaverse #TheMatrix