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* {{Defictionalization}}:
** For a brief period, Website/FourChan had a problem where people would be instructed to save an image, change the extension, and run it for their "free sample of Snow Crash". Fortunately all it did was use your computer to post more such images back to 4chan instead of frying your brain, considering the apparently sizable number of people ''stupid enough to do it''.
** ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' is quite similar to the concept of the Metaverse, unsurprising when you know that it was inspired by the book. A group of fans puts on a performance of the book in ''Second Life'' once a year.
** AugmentedReality is now available through various smartphone applications.
** ''[[Website/{{Google}} Google Earth]]'' was inspired by the mapping/satellite imagery app described in this book.
** For a brief period, Website/FourChan had a problem where people would be instructed to save an image, change the extension, and run it for their "free sample of Snow Crash". Fortunately all it did was use your computer to post more such images back to 4chan instead of frying your brain, considering the apparently sizable number of people ''stupid enough to do it''.
** ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' is quite similar to the concept of the Metaverse, unsurprising when you know that it was inspired by the book. A group of fans puts on a performance of the book in ''Second Life'' once a year.
** AugmentedReality is now available through various smartphone applications.
** ''[[Website/{{Google}} Google Earth]]'' was inspired by the mapping/satellite imagery app described in this book.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Due to the massive amounts of [[ScienceMarchesOn Science]] and [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Marching On]], the novel couldn't be anything but a product of the TheNineties.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Due to the massive amounts of [[ScienceMarchesOn Science]] and [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Marching On]], the novel couldn't be anything but a product of the TheNineties.
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* PermanentPlaceholder: The main character is named Hiro Protagonist.[[note]]Hiro is pronounced the same way as Hero; Protagonist is, well, a Protagonist.[[/note]] Stephenson put it in as a placeholder for the main character's name, and then never changed it.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, ''Snow Crash'' was planned to be a computer-generated graphic novel with art by Tony Sheeder. Stephenson jokes in the acknowledgements section that this scrapped plan meant "I have probably spent more hours coding during the production of this work than actually writing it."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, ''Snow Crash'' was planned to be a computer-generated graphic novel with art by Tony Sheeder. Stephenson jokes in the acknowledgements section that this scrapped plan and the custom image processing software that it required meant "I have probably spent more hours coding during the production of this work than actually writing it."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, ''Snow Crash'' was planned to be a comic book.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, ''Snow Crash'' was planned to be a comic book.computer-generated graphic novel with art by Tony Sheeder. Stephenson jokes in the acknowledgements section that this scrapped plan meant "I have probably spent more hours coding during the production of this work than actually writing it."
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*WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, ''Snow Crash'' was planned to be a comic book.
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