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Meatspace /meet'spays/ N. The Physical World, Where The Meat Lives - As Opposed To Cyberspace.
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meatspace /meet'spays/ n.
The physical world, where
the meat lives - as opposed to cyberspace. Hackers are
actually more willing to use this term than `cyberspace', because
it's not speculative - we already have a running meatspace
implementation (the universe). Compare RL.
Related:
cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
RL // n. [MUD community] Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing.
Compare meatspace; oppose VR....
cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
wilight zone: [IRC] n. Notionally, the area of cyberspace where {IRC} operators live.
An {op} is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and physical homes in RL are private, but home pages are designed to be very public....
hyperspace: /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
Another core dump --- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow....
wilight zone n. // [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live.
An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone"....
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
hyperspace /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing
especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system....