Digital Monster (virtual pet) a special link cable. It can also hook up to the original pets through a Digimon "dock N rock" connector. Digital Monster (virtual pet) The Digital Monster is a digital pet released in 1997 by Bandai. This pet was a masculine counterpart to the Tamagotchi, which, despite having fans of both genders, was deemed more appropriate for girls. It spawned the Digimon franchise. It was similar to earlier virtual pets with the distinctions of being a fighting pet that could connect with others like it. The original Digital Monster model that released in 1997 sold units worldwide, including in Japan
Virtual reality in fiction the implications of what he termed "phantomatics" in his nonfictional 1964 treatise "Summa Technologiae". A number of other popular fictional works use the concept of virtual reality. These include William Gibson's 1984 "Neuromancer", which defined the concept of cyberspace, and his 1994 "Virtual Light", where a presentation viewable in VR-like goggles was the MacGuffin. Other examples are Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's "The Hacker and the Ants", in which a programmer uses VR for robot design and testing. The "Otherland"