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{{trope}}
What is
The short answer: "It's the Internet, except you can walk around in it."
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This is a subtrope of [[Cyberspace]] where it's widely known and used as a replacement for today's Internet by the public at large, not just by a few lucky hackers, discoverers, or inventors' friends.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' - See the episode where Major Kusanagi visits a chat room, for example.
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* The Sidebar Universes in Justina Robson's ''Living Next Door to the God of Love'' are a lot like this. Robson makes it difficult to tell where (or if) reality ends and virtual reality begins.
* The Infosphere in Dan Simmon's ''Hyperion''. {{spoiler|Also the Megasphere, the true home of the AI Core, and the Metasphere, aka the Void Which Binds.}}
* Inscape in several of Karl Schroeder's book, especially ''Ventus'', ''Lady of Mazes'', and ''Permanence''.
* Used in a few of Charles Stross's books, particularly ''Accelerando''.
* ''This Alien Shore'', by C.S. Friedman.
* Used on a massive scale in the ''Golden Age'' trilogy by John C. Wright.
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* Active Worlds
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* [[Second Life]]
* For some years, [[Steve Jackson Games]] ran a MUD/MUSH named "The Metaverse" (after ''Snow Crash'') on its original net presence, io.com.
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