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From: Manolis Skoulikas great_worm@*****.com
Subject: FASA Trademarks
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:26:29 +0300
Jamz wrote:
>
> I thought he coined the term "Cyberspace" and not Matrix.
>
"Case was twenty four. At twenty two, he'd been a cowboy, one of the
best in the sprawl.
He'd been trained by the best, by mc Coy Pauley and bobby Quine, legends
in the biz.
He'd operated in an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of
youth and proficiency,
jacked int a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied
consciousness into the
consensual hallucination that was the matrix.

W.Gibson's "Neuromancer" page 5.

As you see there are a lot of SR lingos in Gibson's books.

jacked
cyberspace
deck
and of course "MATRIX"

Btw read these books people (if you haven't allready-many of you seem to
have not)
They are great!

for those interested the books are
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Virtual Light

(and others of course but this trilogy is his best work and VERY SR!)

the wiz

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