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The Source? Compuserve? AOL? Those three come quickly to mind that were certainly trying very hard to be the " publicly accessible global information network
by cubano 5y ago
The Source? Compuserve? AOL?
Those three come quickly to mind that were certainly trying very hard to be the " publicly accessible global information network with visual representations of corporate presence" you are speaking of.
- pmoriarty 5y agoAOL didn't exist when Neuromancer was written. While the others did, Gibson seemed not to have been aware of them, and he didn't even own a computer at the time. You can tell his vision of cyberspace came entirely from his imagination because it doesn't even remotely resemble any actual computer systems of the day.