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• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C) to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider").
  Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naï...
• cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
  Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....
• cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
  Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....
• gig /jig/ or /gig/ n. [SI] See quantifiers.
• cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• Cat \kat'\ n. 1: A dog with an attitude problem.
• cowboy n. [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker.
  It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• dirtball n. [XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling outside
  ot in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....