Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I've never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.

There's a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.

Thirded.

Check these out:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0 AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System (check channel for more)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdoGPav3fc Computer Chronicles: Unix (search the channel for more related videos)
• https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-1/os-wars-part-1 The podcast series Command Line Heroes produced by Redhat includes many episodes that get into history related to Linux. Pick your way through the different seasons and pick out some episodes. Browse the companion site for supplemental material, for example, this post: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/linux-and-enduring-magic-unix

Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there's a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It's similar to how we went from "machine learning" to "AI".

It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant "metaverse" is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.