cyberspace

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The Internet and the online world as a whole.

   News spreads through cyberspace within seconds these days.

2. 2
   noun

   The world of information that you reach through the Internet.

   Our personal data now lives somewhere out in cyberspace.

Blend of cybernetics + space, equivalent to cyber- + space, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in his short story collection Burning Chrome (1982) and popularized in his novel Neuromancer (1984).

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