A brief history of the meta universe and the future position of pop angel

1991 - the birth of the Internet On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners Lee released the first open invitation for cooperation on the world wide web. This is the day when the Internet was born.

1992 – avalanche The following year, science fiction writer Neil Stephenson coined the term "metauniverse" in his 1992 novel avalanche, in which humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents in a three-dimensional virtual space using metaphor. The real world.

1993 – work certificate This term and concept is introduced in the context of computer security as a way to prevent e-mail spam. Later, certification became one of the main technologies for verifying and legalizing transactions on the blockchain, especially online currency mining based on computer capabilities.

2002 – digital twins The concept and model of digital Twins - the digital counterpart of physical objects - were publicly introduced at the meeting of the association of manufacturing engineers by Michael grieves of the then University of Michigan in 2002. Grieves proposed taking digital twins as the conceptual model of product life cycle management.

2003 – second life Second life is an online virtual world developed by Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab in 2003. It is largely a pioneer of the metaverse world being developed today. One of the biggest problems faced by second life users is low bandwidth and high "resolution" time, which makes its experience less ideal. But even today, second life still has an active user base of 1 million people, each spending more than four hours a day in this virtual world.

2006 – roblock This online platform was introduced to allow users to create and play games developed by other users. During the 2020 pandemic, it has become an important source of interaction among young people and the third highest box office game of that year.

The birth of the meta universe

2009 – bitcoin

On January 3, 2009, bitcoin network was born. Its mysterious founder, Nakamoto Cong, excavated the creation block (block number 0) of bitcoin and won 50 bitcoin awards. This is the day bitcoin was born. 2009 – blockchain With the invention of bitcoin, Nakamoto also invented blockchain as the public transaction ledger of bitcoin. Although others claim to have invented the concept of blockchain earlier, the same day bitcoin was launched is also the same day that a usable form of blockchain was born.

2010 – game making technology

Gacha game has become popular in Japan in the early 2010's. based on the concept of egg twisting vending machine, the earliest known system is in MapleStory. Players will earn money, which they can use to draw randomly from a group of items according to a predetermined rarity. The usual goal is to collect a group of items to obtain powerful in-game rewards.

2012 – NFT

NFT or "nifty" is an irreplaceable token that represents a unique item rather than interchangeable tokens. They can be exchanged with each other, such as cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. The concept of NFT has been with us since December 2012, when we created "color coin", in which additional information is incorporated into bitcoin, so it is no longer replaceable, but unique. Interestingly, this is a project led by young vitalik buterin, who is committed to improving the bitcoin blockchain.

2015 – Ethereum

In July 2015, vitalik buterin and Gavin wood launched Ethereum network and Ethereum blockchain. 2015 – decentralization The first iteration of the virtual reality platform was launched in 2015. It allocates "land" through workload proof algorithm. The NFT boom in 2021 led to the sale of some real estate plots of the game for more than $100000. 2015 – smart contracts Smart contract was first proposed by Nick Szabo in the early 1990s. He coined the term to refer to "a set of commitments specified in digital form, including the agreement between the parties to fulfill these commitments". Since the launch of Ethereum blockchain in 2015, the term "smart contract" has been more specifically applied to the concept of general computing on blockchain or distributed ledger.

2016 – magic baby go

Pok é mon go is the first game to overlay the virtual world onto the real world. It uses mobile devices with GPS to locate, capture, train and fight virtual creatures (called magic babies), which look like they are in the player's real world.

Era of rapid development of meta universe

2016 – the Dao – decentralized autonomous organization

The company named the Dao was launched through the sale of crowdfunding tokens in May 2016, setting the record of the largest crowdfunding activity in history at that time. It aims to become an alternative venture capital fund, created on Ethereum's blockchain and will be used as a decentralized financing model. In June 2016, users exploited a vulnerability in the Dao code, enabling them to transfer a third of the Dao's funds to an affiliated account. This led to the demise of the Dao as a company. However, the concept of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) continues to exist, but the lessons learned from the Dao's experience have greatly improved. Looking forward to the future, each Dao will become an important part of Yuanjie companies in the future. These companies are jointly managed by the participants in the organization, and the rules and financial transactions are recorded on the blockchain. For example, Dao is formed around the joint ownership of NFT.

2017 – fortress night

After the release of this game, many people have achieved great success in the appearance and feel of the universe. The total number of fortnite users is 350 million.

2018 – Dai stable currency

The purpose of introducing Dai stable currency is to add a new element to the turbulent cryptocurrency world. Compared with cryptocurrencies that do not anchor any fiat currency or only anchor other cryptocurrencies, the centralized Dai stable currency is linked to the US dollar, making it much less volatile and more reliable for decentralized Finance (defi). Today, blockchain based banking services can be used on many similar cryptocurrency lending and investment platforms. At present, they are largely unregulated by our traditional institutions, and in most cases, users seem to be very good about it.

2018 – decentralized exchange (DEX)

When Bancor lost $13.5 million to hackers, the online currency exchange suffered a major public relations blow. Although their legal / regulatory basis remains somewhat uncertain, DEX continues to be a way for people to sell and trade their online monetary assets based on smart contracts rather than through centralized exchanges.

2020 - COVID-19

When covid broke out on the scene in 2020, people around the world found themselves isolated and had little choice to invest time and energy. For this reason, metauniverse has rapidly become the first choice for more and more young people, game players and those who want to make money in the online world. In our polarized world, the meta universe presents a tone against current institutions - the deeper they are, the greater the risk they face. This pushed people to the underground economy and the yuan world, setting off a "perfect storm" for the growth of the yuan world.

2020 – decentralized applications (dapps)

The value of tokens on the six blockchain platforms exceeds US $2 billion. The movement to cut middlemen continues as open-source, transparent applications emerge to support the use of games, dexes, defi and other acronyms. Although many people call dapps an emerging trend, the first DAPP was actually a bitcoin application more than a decade ago.

2020 – the first concert of Yuanjie

In April 2020, Travis Scott and marshmello performed for nearly 30 million people in the video game fortrite.

2020 – Solana

Also in April, Solana blockchain DAPP was launched. Compared with Ethereum, this DAPP cryptocurrency, called sol, is mined based on the standby proof of ownership (POS) algorithm. In addition, issues related to block ownership were clarified and simplified in Solana, using a new consensus tool called "historical proof" to insert time stamps into its blockchain.

2020 – alien world

This popular DAPP was created using a multiverse interplanetary scene in which NFT characters interact in decentralized autonomous organizations to mine tokens and perform other tasks. By 2021, alien worlds has more than 2.5 million users, but its significance goes far beyond that - the game is built around an important course to teach people the principles of cryptocurrency and cryptomining.

Towards the future in 2022

In the past few years, the development of various supporting technologies and new functions in the virtual world is incredible. But it's not as amazing as after 2021. In fact, in the future, all aspects of society - including government, business, church, entertainment, dating, politics and even war - will continue to change with the development of pop angel, which will have a particularly far-reaching impact on the way we and our children live in the future.