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Defining “cyber”

Posted by Elizabeth Churchill on June 9, 2005

We had some discussion of what “cyber” meant anyway, and Gitte sent the following:

Etymologically, cyber comes from the greek word for helmsman. It’s use for computer- and internet-related topics dates to William Gibson, the premier cyberpunk writer, who apparently coined the term “cyberspace.”

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