cyberculture

Or cy·ber cul·ture

[sahy-ber-kuhl-cher]

noun

1. a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the internet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyberculture¹

First recorded in 1960–65; cyber- + culture

Example Sentences

The tech industry went through similar reactionary spasms around the last presidential election, revealing a different strain of libertarianism from the counterculture and cyberculture geeks coding away in their garages.

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For many of the Californian pioneers of cyberculture, who cherished online communities as an escape from the values and constraints of capitalist society, Zuckerberg’s triumph represents an unmitigated defeat.

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“She is flipping the idea of beauty to something surreal, something influenced by gaming and the cyberculture.”

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The latter type of contest has backfired before – namely, when the Natural Environment Research Council, blissfully unaware of the subversive nature of cyberculture, invited people to name its newest research vessel.

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About 25 years ago, he tried on a VR rig at a convention sponsored by the early cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000 and was disappointed by how huge and uncomfortable it was.

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