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From: Jeremiah A Blatz
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:11:09 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.alt.cyberpunk: 14-Jul-95 Re: A show of hands
(ME!!, .. by Omar Haneef '[email protected]
> > Look at it this way: If I read your little treatse on utopia and said,
> > "uh, you sound like a person," would you be satisfied?
>
> "Living on the edge", the whole lifestyle you describe, existed before the
> first person who coined the term "cyberpunk" was an itty bitty sperm.

In reply to your "what is cyberpunk" question, I replied something to
the tune of "Fuck off, and go learn some C++." What lifestyle did I
describe, pinkboy? And who the fuck said that cyberpunk (the
"lifestyle") was even a revolutionalry idea? It was only really
revolutionalry in sci fi lit.

Jer

>https://omega.mac.cc.cmu.edu/

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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