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"At its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we can't predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe."
- John Brunner
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| Webcast | ||
| A broadcast accomplished over a data network. |
As far as I know, this is the first use of this increasingly useful word.
| “AND RIGHT DOWN there,” shouted the chopper pilot over the sound of the rotors, “is the top-secret SORCELIS installation.” He grinned to show that there were no flies on him; that he understood that SORCELIS wasn't a secret any longer, if it ever had been—DataWeb News had done an in-depth on it not two weeks ago, and tourists had been trekking up into the New York hills ever since the webcast. |
| Technovelgy from Armageddon Blues,
by D.K. Moran. Published by Bantam in 1987 Additional resources -
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The first use of the word "web" for a data network, as far as I know, is in a 1954 Philip K. Dick story, Souvenir - see the entry for web (data network).
Compare also to the data-net from The Shockwave Rider (1975), by John Brunner.
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