By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
Over at the Paris Review, William Gibson has finally told the full story of how he invented the term cyberspace — partly by scribbling on notepads, and partly by watching kids playing videogames in early-1980s arcades. Here’s a really fascinating excerpt from a much longer interview with Gibson: INTERVIEWER Where did cyberspace come from? GIBSON I was painfully aware that I lacked an arena for my bk8สล็อตฟรี science fiction . . . I was walking around Vancouver, aware of that need, and I remember walking past a video arcade, which was a new sort of business at that time, and seeing kids PIGSPIN เครดิตฟรี 100 playing those old-fashioned console-style plywood video games. The games had a very primitive graphic representation of space and perspective. Some of them didn’t even have perspective but were yearning toward perspective and 
dimensionality. Even in this very primitive form, the kids who were playing them 
were so physically involved, it seemed to me that what they wanted was to be inside the games, within the notional 
space of the machine. The real world had disappeared for them-it had completely lost its importance. They were in that notional space, and the machine in front of them was the brave new world. The only computers I’d ever seen in huc99สล็อตฟรี those days were things the size of the side of a barn. And then one day, I walked by a bus stop and there was an Apple poster. The poster was a photograph of a businessman’s jacketed, neatly cuffed arm holding a life-size representation of a real-life computer that was not much bigger than a laptop is today. Everyone is going to have one of these, I thought, and everyone is going to want to live inside them. And somehow I knew that the notional space behind all of the computer screens would be one single universe . . . Read more via io9 https://gizmodo.com/william-gibson-says-cyberspace-was-inspired-by-8-bit-vi-5815019
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