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cyberspace n. 1982 W. Gibson Burning Chrome in Omni July 72/2 I knew every chip in Bobby’s simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I’d rebuilt it so many times that you’d have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon.
meat puppet n. 1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer 147 Where’s the meat puppet?
Raygun Gothic n. 1981 W. Gibson The Gernsback Continuum in T. Carr Universe 11 98 Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called ‘American Streamlined Moderne’. Cohen called it ‘raygun Gothic’.