Oxymoron Dagger

I am closing in on completing my 13th year in SL and I can never forget what got me here. I am an avid sci-fi buff and Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite authors in this genre. Needless to say I have read Snow Crash (published in 1992). In Snow Crash, Neal had proposed the idea of a metaverse where people log in and do stuff just like we do in real life. On 31st May 2007, I distinctly remember reading an article online that said, Linden Labs has "loosely" modeled Secondlife on Neal's proposition! I almost jumped out of my chair in excitement and dropped the laptop that was resting on my lap in my eagerness to check it out. The rest as they say is history... googled second life, downloaded, installed and well... yeah 13 years and counting...