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| Web (Data Network) | ||
| An information network. |
This is the first time I've seen the word "web" used as the name for a communications network. Not surprised to find it in the work of PKD.
| "On the contrary," Williamson said, entering the vehicle. "We've been receiving your Relay coordinates for over a century." He motioned Rogers to get in beside him.
Rogers was puzzled. "I don't understand. You mean you hooked onto the web and yet made no attempt to --" "We receive your coordinates," Gene Williamson said, "but our citizens are not interested in using them." |
| Technovelgy from Souvenir,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantastic Universe in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to the data-net from The Shockwave Rider (1975) by John Brunner and the blacknet from Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross. Also, see webcast from Armageddon Blues (1987), by D.K. Moran.
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