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== Anime and Manga ==
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'' - See the episode where Major Kusanagi visits a chat room, for example.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' - See the episode where Major Kusanagi visits a chat room, for example.
* ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' has "2.0". We see it grow in importance over the course of the series.
* ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' has "2.0". We see it grow in importance over the course of the series.
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''
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== Tabletop Games ==
== Tabletop Games ==
* In [[White Wolf]]'s ''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Ascension]]'' game, there's the Digital Web, and one faction is working on Reality 2.0 to boot.
* In [[White Wolf]]'s ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' game, there's the Digital Web, and one faction is working on Reality 2.0 to boot.
* ''Shadowrun'''s Matrix. Not related to the movie.
* ''Shadowrun'''s Matrix. Not related to the movie.
* The ''[[D 20 Modern (Tabletop Game)|D 20 Modern]]'' book ''d20 Cyberscape'' addresses this.
* The ''[[D20 Modern|D 20 Modern]]'' book ''d20 Cyberscape'' addresses this.




== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Megaman Battle Network]]'' - The Internet has evolved into just this, except the avatars are independent, sentient entities instead of just virtual images of the users. Also, it's been extended into everything from water coolers to vases.
* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' - The Internet has evolved into just this, except the avatars are independent, sentient entities instead of just virtual images of the users. Also, it's been extended into everything from water coolers to vases.
** In ''Star Force'', the internet has grown out into a massive wireless world that ''overlaps'' the real one.
** In ''Star Force'', the internet has grown out into a massive wireless world that ''overlaps'' the real one.
*** And yet manages to be both far, ''far'' less impressive or useful than the internet from something like a hundred years before.
*** And yet manages to be both far, ''far'' less impressive or useful than the internet from something like a hundred years before.
* [[The Nameless Mod]]: a meta example. The game (mod) is set in forum city-a fictional [[Metaverse]] based on [[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]] where player avatars are based on [[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]] characters.
* [[The Nameless Mod]]: a meta example. The game (mod) is set in forum city-a fictional [[Metaverse]] based on [[Deus Ex]] where player avatars are based on [[Deus Ex]] characters.