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Jeremiah A Blatz ([email protected]) wrote:
> 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
Take it east Jeremy. Nobody said it was revolutionary. (I already know C++).
And its precisely because its not new that you don't need a word for it.
> 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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