Sunday, March 22, 2009

Cyberpunk Wierd Jargon

Alpha Geek
A high school boy who likes being wired but is not quite Cyberpunk, but in training.

X-Iled
The idea of being lost in cyberspace

meatspace
The real world .

Cracker
A cracker seeks to break into a system to do damage or take some other action that the owner of that system has not authorised (and probably doesn't want to happen).

chaos
(unorder) A state that gains a lot of respect in cyberculture, to the point of being a techno-pagan religion. Many people are self-described chaoticians.



Phrack

An important magazine existing only in cyberspace, of interest to the computer underground. Founded by Craig Neirdorf.

Zaibatsu
Japanese term coined by William Gibson that means a large mega-corporation.

Wirehead
A hacker of hardware

Apogee
The best and greatest.

Netrun
The action of interfacing with the Internet and using it to hack into Data Fortresses.

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