William Gibsons Neuromancer: Cyberspace

William Gibson's Neuromancer: Cyberspace


     As described by William Gibson in his science fiction novel Neuromancer,

cyberspace was a "Consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical

space but actuallly was a computer-generated construct representing abstract

data."  Years later, mankind has realized that Gibson's vision is very close to

reality.  The term cyberspace was frequently used to explain or describe the

process in which two computers connect with each other through various telephone

lines.  In this communication between the two systems there seems to be no

distance between them.

     There are now four catagories that describe the major components of todays

cyber space.  One oof those is commercial on-line services. These large computer

systems can host thousands of users simultaneously.  When a computer user

purchases an account from the company they recieve a screen name and a password.

The user then can use his or her screen name and password to log on and use the

system.  Most of the online systems have chat rooms where users can chat in real

time with one another. some users even think of on-line services as a community.

     The second catagory involves Bulletin Boards or (BBS's).  These services

allow the user accounts like their larger on-line service cousins.  These BBS's

have less users because they run on smaller computers.  The system operators,

more  commonly known as sysops, are running the boards.  Since most BBS's are

hobbies there is usually no charge for an account.  The same as on-line services,

 users use BBS's for trades, games, and to chat among other users.  Since

bulletin boeard are so easy to set up there are thousands of them located around

the world.  Each board has a theme.  These themes range from astronomy to racist

neo-nazi crap.  A boards theme helps users in their search for a board that will

satisfy their personal preference.

     A third catagory is the Private System.  These private systems sometime run

bulletin boards privately,  not letting the public acess.  In these private

systems users can perfor
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