AOL 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 tim

AOL 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.