Cyberspace

=Cyberspace=
 * (submitted by Karen Casselman)**

Definition

 * Cyberspace** is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. The term originates in [|science fiction], where it also includes various kinds of [|virtual reality] experienced by deeply immersed computer users or by entities who exist inside computer systems.

Origins of the term
The word "cyberspace" (from //[|cybernetics]// and //[|space]//) was [|coined] by science fiction novelist and seminal [|cyberpunk] author [|William Gibson] in his 1982 story [|"Burning Chrome"] and popularized by his 1984 novel //[|Neuromancer].//[|[1]]

The term //Cyberspace// started to become a //de facto// synonym for the //[|Internet],// and later the //[|World Wide Web],// during the 1990s, especially in academic circles[|[2]] and activist communities. Author [|Bruce Sterling], who popularized this meaning,[|[3]] credits [|John Perry Barlow] as the first to use it to refer to //"the present-day nexus of computer and telecommunications networks."// Barlow describes it thus in his essay to announce the formation of the [|Electronic Frontier Foundation] (note the spatial metaphor) in June, 1990:[|[4]]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace

Related Topics and Links

 * [|Cybernetics]
 * [|Cyber law]
 * [|Cyber-warfare]
 * [|Cybersex]
 * [|Cyberzine]
 * [|Cipherspace]
 * [|Crypto-anarchism]
 * [|Digital pet]
 * [|Electronic sports]
 * [|Information highway]
 * [|Infosphere]
 * [|Internet art]
 * [|Metaverse]
 * [|Noosphere]
 * [|Simulation]
 * [|Social software]
 * [|Telepresence]
 * [|Virtual world]
 * //[|24 Hours in Cyberspace]//