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▲ jMyles 4 hours ago

Whatever else is real or myth with regard to these trolly pranking trademark spats, I think it's pretty reasonable to say that the term "cyberspace" emerged amidst - or at least adjacent to - a lot of LSD and Grateful Dead tapes.

https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/...

▲Eric_Gullichsen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Timothy Leary did say "The PC is the LSD of the 1990s" on the back cover of his 1994 book, Chaos & Cyber Culture (Ronin Publishing, ISBN 0-914171-77-7).

▲davedx an hour ago | parent [-]

God, I only wish

▲xbar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cyberspace is defined with the word "hallucination", and Gibson spent 1977-1983 writing his short fiction and first novel on the subject. The degree to which he was influenced by psychedelic culture is open to debate, but I agree that it was non-zero. I think Grateful Dead tapes is your own projection, however. Bob Marley is more likely as muse-ic.

▲belZaah an hour ago | parent [-]

Yup, there’s righteous dub involved in orbital adventures