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William Gibson's Neuromancer: Cyberspace


As described by William Gibson in his science fiction novel Neuromancer,
cyberspace was a "Consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical
space but actuallly was a computer-generated construct representing abstract
data." Years later, mankind has realized that Gibson's vision is very close to
reality. The term cyberspace was frequently used to explain or describe the
process in which two computers connect with each other through various telephone
lines. In this communication between the two systems there seems to be no
distance between them.
There are now four categories
that describe the major components of todays
cyber space. One oof those is commercial on-line services. These large computer
systems can host thousands of users simultaneously. When a computer user
purchases an account from the company they receive
a screen name and a password.
The user then can use his or her screen name and password to log......

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