BCM206 | Week 3
Cyberspaces began to spawn into existence in the 80s when science fiction writer William Gibson coined the term and explain it as “a consensual hallucination experience daily by billions of legitimate operators. A graphic representation of data..“
The personal computer also became popular in this decade and started to be used for the home instead of just the office in the 80s with the release of the Commodore 64 in 1982. And then users became interested in the interface (Graphic User Interface) of computers in 1984 with Apple’s release of the Macintosh 128K which made it easy for them to access cyberspace in their homes.
In 1996 American Poet J.P Barlow wrote, “Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.”
Thus began the time for a singleton’s user to have a personal experience in Cyberspace.
References
– Barlow, J.P. (1996) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
– Gibson, W (1984), Neuromancer, p. 69
– 1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
– Macbook Air – Lightness – Apple, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iI7YmIr30
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