Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, using your well-known alias "e-mail," you enable millions to communicate with each other over vast distances at low cost. Here at Harvard, in the face of randomized upper-class housing, e-mail lists have allowed scattered friends to maintain a sense of cohesion, if only virtual...
...among your latest identities, "virtual reality" and 3-D displays will bring a new level of realism to our interaction with...
Sword-wielding virtual warriors in the medieval world of Ultima Online have become real-life plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Origin Systems, creator of the popular Internet game. Fed up with service lags and other bugs, they charge Origin knew it couldn't deliver 24-hour real-time play but advertised it anyway. Their lawyer says it's time the computer-gaming industry quit hyping its wares; he wants Origin to drop its $10 monthly fee until the problems are fixed. The company won't comment but invites players to call its help line...
...Cyberspace vs. Meatspace" examines how applicable tangible realm laws are for the virtual world of "Cyberspace," which transcends the physical sphere of individual and national borders...
This interest, combined with the "virtual"meeting of Acid Phreak, led Barlow to considerCyberspace a "social space instead of a network ofwires, [or a] community in absence of place...