Re: Special Issue of TIME: Welcome to Cyberspace

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• Subject: Re: Special Issue of TIME: Welcome to Cyberspace
• From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
• Date: Sat, 18 Mar 95 15:45:26 -0800

Article: news.misc.6574
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 Bruce Baugh (bruceab@teleport.com) wrote:
 : I wonder if John Brunner might be a possible counter-example - I know that by 
 : the late '80s a bunch of the programmers I know were re/discovering works like 
 : SHOCKWAVE RIDER and finding interesting foreshadowing in them. But it doesn't 
 : seem to have been in mind in the _early_ '80s.
 I got my first ArpaNet account in 1972-3 and read "The Shockwave
 Rider" in 1975, just after I started with Intel (then a little maker
 of memory chips and funny things called microprocessors).
 Lots of us were mightily influenced by Brunner.
 I think, though, that Gibson deserves greater credit for essentially
 starting a genre (crummy as lot of cyberpunk stuff is) and for
 recognizing "cyberspace" as literal place. (Vinge did, too.)
 --Tim May
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