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William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

A piece revisits how William Gibson's term 'cyberspace', coined in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, was trademarked as the term became central to early internet culture. It examines who claimed ownership of the word and what that meant for the sci-fi community and early web pioneers who adopted it freely.

Why now: Renewed interest in the origins and commercialisation of foundational internet terminology.

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