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Re: .sig followup



At 8:32 PM 4/4/96, Rich Graves wrote:
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>CDAmeisters as an "invasion," but I really don't buy this stuff about
>Cyberspace (a word only Barlow can say with a straight face) being a new
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>"place." It's just a communications medium, no more and no less real than
>anything else. I think it would be better to stress that the online *is*

This is not true. I use the word "cyberspace" with a straight face. It has
long seemed perfectly descriptive to me.

This doesn't mean I buy Barlow's "let's just declare independence" schtick.

--Tim May

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