In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.
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Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
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You should use the preceding terms whenever you have to 'interface'¹ with computer experts. For example, if you're purchasing a new computer, you want to use as many of these terms as possible, so that store personnel will realize that they're dealing with a person who has a high level of technical expertise:
STORE PERSONNEL: May I help you? YOU: I'm looking for a 'hard drive' with plenty of 'RAM' in the 'megahertz.' STORE PERSONNEL: You want the computer store next door. This is a supermarket. YOU: Let me see your 'zucchini.'
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It can take quite a while for a Web page to appear on your screen. The reason for the delay is that, when you type in a Web address, your computer passes it along to another computer, which in turn passes it along to another computer, and so on through as many as 5 computers before it finally reaches the work station of a disgruntled U.S. Postal Service employee, who throws it in the trash.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
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Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
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A:>hello bad command or file name A:>help bad command or file name A:>do somthing! bad command or file name A:> F#$k you!!!! bad command or file name, A#@hole
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Internet people love acronyms because they make communication much more efficient, as we can see from the following typical conversation:
Person A: What's up? Person B: Not much. Person A: LOL. HEFY? Person B: ROTFL. Person C: PMFJ, but IMHO, OJIOGBUOLSWMR TJVAIFWNTMITSI HDHGCOAC.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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I was shit scared of cyberspace, so I downloaded in my pants.
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
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