Will we see growth in the metaverse similar to the World Wide Web back in the 1990s? One source shows that there were fewer than 3,000 websites in 1994, but just five years later, there were more than 3 million, and being “on the web” was essential to many businesses.
The internet’s growth in the 1990s was fueled by rapid technological changes, growing customer expectations, and evolving business models, among other factors. It required a radical shift in IT functions, and during the past two decades just about all businesses came to need software development, integration, data, analytics, customer experience, automation, and e-commerce capabilities to remain solvent.
