Yes, good book, but out of date. How many snow crashes have you seen? I can recall triggering them on retro computers like a Color Computer 3 running OS-9, and a Sun 3, but since then, hardware seems to have changed in a fundamental way that doesn't allow snow crashes.
zero. most hardware is not something you can play with easily anymore. Everyone who knew how to do that grew up and put the hardware behind profitable walled gardens
Of course, and as I recall, it had Perl code in it. Classic SciFi in the sense that you take reality, break one and only one rule, and see what happens as you move through time.
crazy how influential that little book is. funny enough, I grew up on Ready Player One, and by the time i got old enough to start seriously getting into tech, reading Snow Crash was like re-reading RP1 but if RP1 was actually a good story and not written by an incel copying Neal Stephenson.
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for my digital footprint's sake this was an off-handed late night comment expressing my disdain for poor writing in Ready Player 2 & personal thoughts on the novel.