Cyberspace

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A term used to describe digital space, first used by William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer (1984):

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions, in every nation. A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."