Dawn of A Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Metaverse: TMCF | MetaScholars Program

I can still remember the first day I saw a commercial website. It was around 1998 and its was the Victoria Secret site. Not only was the site provocative, BUT it represented to me a shift in digital commerce where design and accessibility fused to radically redefine how we (as consumers) would engage retail. Now, Victoria Secret was NOT the first instance of this revolution — In fact we can track back to as early as 1982 with the Boston Computer Exchange. BCE was launched to serve as an online market for selling used computers. After that, in 1992 Charles M. Stack delivered to us one of the earliest consumer online shopping experiences with Book Stacks Unlimited — a dial-up bulletin board three years BEFORE Amazon. Books Stacks Unlimited was then purchased by Barnes & Noble and became: Books.com. For me though, it was Victoria’s Secret — It was THAT website that 1. Illuminated to me a vision that was shared with me years before by a young man named Eric Anderson, who at a slumber party shared an idea about computers and the emerging internet. That changed the trajectory of my life and awakened a young creative, technologically inclined Vincent … 2. That website was over a decade of dreams colliding with the earth and the catalyst (for me) into the world of Web Design and Development. It was early 1999 when I launched my very first…