This is from 2021

Yes, definitely inspired by Habbo too. Client is pure vanilla JS, I've built the game engine from scratch. Multiplayer is socket-based.

thanks! Coke Studios was an inspiration. Arrow keys to move, and space to interact with objects

Good to know, thanks. I'm not the author, just stumbled upon it today.

imho, the language didn't age as well as other popular multi-paradigm predecessors. I never got my head around their OO implementation, or handling of arguments.

Mobile users can use firefox extensions

That's not exactly a standard work on business management advice.

Are you proposing that Larry and Sergey are starting a secret society of billionaires who are withdrawing their genius contributions from society as a protest against government regulations?

If Larry and Sergey were the kind of people that were quitting and disappearing in the book, they would not quit, but instead try to sneakily dismantle Google from within, like d'Anconia in the book. :)

Any followup research? how does the redox tower of these microbes work?

Not that I know of, but if I see anything new I am going to share it.

Note: Eclipse Ventures, of which Pierre is a team member, is an investor in Cerebras Systems [0]

[0] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/163733-59