Tuesday, 17. March 2009
Topic: ART - on March 17, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace
William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
The death of his father and a move to rural Wytheville, Virginia, propelled Gibson at age 6 to withdraw into his books, especially science fiction. In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories he called this his "native literary culture."
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