I prefer William Gibson's definition of/cyberspace/, from his novel "Neuromancer" (1984):
"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light receding in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."
Not that this matches today's Internet, but we are getting closer...
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I prefer William Gibson's definition of /cyberspace/, from his novel "Neuromancer" (1984):
"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light receding in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."
Not that this matches today's Internet, but we are getting closer...