o YouTube ainda existe.
I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing ’80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn’t part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
Está implícito que o Youtube ainda estava em uso comum (e não apenas para fins de pesquisa de vídeos antigos):
I considered teleporting to Incipio before my “interview,” to buy a new skin for my avatar. Maybe a tailored suit. Something flashy and expensive. But then I thought better of it. I had nothing to prove to that corporate asshat. After all, I was famous now. I would roll into the meeting wearing my default skin and a f***-off attitude. I would listen to their offer, then tell them to kiss my simulated ass. Maybe I’d record the whole thing and post it on YouTube.
No entanto, o Google não parece ter mantido a vantagem de marca que tem agora:
I prepped for the meeting by pulling up a search engine and learning everything I could about Nolan Sorrento.
Mecanismo de pesquisa. Não é o Google.
A Apple merece apenas uma menção pelos antigos computadores Apple I e II, e a Microsoft e outros não merecem nenhuma menção. Isso é mais provável explicado por:
The OASIS quickly became the single most popular use for the Internet, so much so that the terms “OASIS” and “Internet” gradually became synonymous. And the incredibly easy-to-use three-dimensional OASIS OS, which GSS gave away for free, became the single most popular computer operating system in the world.