cyberspaces

Noun

cyberspace (countable and uncountable, plural cyberspaces)

1. A world of information accessed through the Internet.
2. (broadly, dated) The Internet as a whole.
   • Meanwhile, the pioneers of the computer-mediated communication networks collectively referred to as cyberspace are not willing to wait. Employing whatever tools they can find, they are constantly pushing the techno-cultural envelope. Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive, frontier...1993 March, Mitch Kapor, “Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?”, in Wired Magazine

   Synonyms:

   cloud, digital highway, Infobahn, information highway, information superhighway, Internet, Intertubes, interweb, Net, series of tubes

3. A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
   • I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon.1982 July, William Gibson, “Burning Chrome”, in Omni, volume 4, number 10, page 72