![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless like William Gibson who coined the term, the press seems deeply ambivalent about cyberspace and its populace. In practice, of course, the Net is in itself neither a utopian nor a dystopian place, but rather is made up of people who for the most part are sitting in front of monitors and keyboards exchanging commonplace information a bit more conveniently, if often with a sense of “virtual community” within “cyberspace”. Since the first Internet covers of Time and Newsweek in 1992–93 that legitimized and sensationalized the Internet, followed by the mainstream popularity of the World Wide Web, the Net has been vilified as often as it's been hailed as a panacea to the world's ills, a late twentieth-century electronic Eldorado. ![]() These “keys to the kingdom” link to further information on the Heaven's Gate home page, which serves as the cult's suicidenote and mission statement.
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