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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cyberspace</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cyberpunk.html" title="cyberpunk"/><link rel="next" href="cycle.html" title="cycle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cyberspace</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cyberpunk.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cycle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cyberspace"/><dt xmlns="" id="cyberspace"><b>cyberspace</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/si:<3A>br<62>spays`/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Notional ‘information-space’ loaded with visual cues
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and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called <span class="firstterm">cyberspace decks</span>; a characteristic prop of
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<a href="cyberpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberpunk</i></a> SF. Serious efforts to construct
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<a href="../V/virtual-reality.html"><i class="glossterm">virtual reality</i></a> interfaces modeled explicitly on
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Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as
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glove sensors and binocular TV headsets. Few hackers are prepared to deny
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outright the possibility of a cyberspace someday evolving out of the
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network (see <a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The Internet or <a href="../M/Matrix.html"><i class="glossterm">Matrix</i></a> (sense #2) as a
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whole, considered as a crude cyberspace (sense 1). Although this usage
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became widely popular in the mainstream press during 1994 when the Internet
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exploded into public awareness, it is strongly deprecated among hackers
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because the Internet does not meet the high, SF-inspired standards they
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have for true cyberspace technology. Thus, this use of the term usually
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tags a <a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a> or outsider. Oppose
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<a href="../M/meatspace.html"><i class="glossterm">meatspace</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in
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<a href="../H/hack-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">hack mode</i></a>. Some hackers report experiencing strong
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synesthetic imagery when in hack mode; interestingly, independent reports
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from multiple sources suggest that there are common features to the
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experience. In particular, the dominant colors of this subjective
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<span class="firstterm">cyberspace</span> are often gray and silver,
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and the imagery often involves constellations of marching dots, elaborate
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shifting patterns of lines and angles, or moire patterns.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cyberpunk.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cycle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cyberpunk<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>cycle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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