- Defictionalization:
- For a brief period, 4chan 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.
- Second Life 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.
- Augmented Reality is now available through various smartphone applications.
- Google Earth was inspired by the mapping/satellite imagery app described in this book.
- Permanent Placeholder: The main character is named Hiro Protagonist.note Stephenson put it in as a placeholder for the main character's name, and then never changed it.
- What Could Have Been: 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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