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From: ddj@zardoz.elbows.org (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on the meaning of Doom
Date: 10 Aug 1994 20:53:47 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Elbows Embassy
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In article <329fg7$rjm@xmission.xmission.com>,
Insanitor <insanitr@xmission.com> wrote:
>Doug DeJulio (ddj@zardoz.elbows.org) wrote:
>: >On a similar theme, many people witter on about cyberspace and often refer to
>: >the Internet by using the word. Yet another mistake. At present, there are
>: >_no_ genuine environments that qualify as true cyberspace zones
>
>: Feh again. What's a cyberspace? It's a space in which cybernetic
>: systems can exist. The Internet fits. It's a cyberspace.
>
>Nah, a cyberspace is a psuedo-physical world, where you can move, and
>interact with other people.
Nope, that's a type of virtual reality, not a cyberspace. Gibson's
"Cyberspace" was in fact just a virtual reality interface to the
cyberspace consisting of the world's global information network.
Cyberspace and virtual reality are orthogonal terms -- they don't
*have* to have anything to do with each other.
--
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.elbows.org
http://www.pitt.edu/~ddj/