"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. โฆ A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace(sic) of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
The word cyberspace was coined by William Gibson in the novelette Burning Chrome, but was more notably popularized by the above quote from page 69 of his latter publication, Neuromancer in 1984.
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A progressing virtual world of global computers having networks of interdependent information technology infrastructures, telecommunications networks and computer processing systems in which online interactions takes place.
Cyberspace is a progressing virtual world of global computers having networks.
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A slang term for the internet.
Hey, I'm surfing in cyberspace.
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(verb) - to forget about another task because one is on the internet.
"Dude, you're burning the pancakes!" "Sorry, I cyberspaced it."
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when one gets so high they feel as though they've slipped into another realm; when one gets way too high while alone to the point one can barely move.
Man, I smoked like four bowls last night by myself. I totally went into cyberspace.
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The act of engaging in time loss while surfing the internet.
Last night I was cyberspacing for ten minutes and three hours went by.
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Being disoriented and lost in a string of random meaningless links on the internet which finally ends on a topic completely different to what you originally had in mind.
Person 1: Dude, what happened? You've been in front of the computer for an hour but didn't even start your work.
Person 2: I know, I guess I was just completely cyberspaced out.
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