From the book Neuromancer by William Gibson ©1984:

"The matrix has its roots in primtive arcade games," said the voice-over, "in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks." On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spacial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tank and war planes. 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 ...."
But what is the World Wide Web? And what is cyberspace? If you look up the word cyberspace in the dictionary you simply will not find it; it is a relatively new concept whose definition has not been agreed upon. How do we deal with the concept of cyberspace if we don't even know what it is? How do we use it effectively? How do we get others to use it effectively?

This site responds to questions about this newest of electronic frontiers. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of a class in communications called 21W785, the purpose of this site is to educate.

This site is divided into two parts:

Click here for information about 21W785, a class about issues in cyberspace communications being taught at MIT.

Click here to enter the Cyberspace Communications information site.