- Meatspace
Meatspace is a word referring to
real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite ofcyberspace orvirtual reality . [cite web
url = http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid17440.aspx
title = Does your life suck?
accessdate = 2007-07-23
last = Dodero
first = Camille
date =2006-07-17
publisher = "The Phoenix"
quote = Beyond this world, in real life — a/k/a what Second Lifers refer to as "meatspace," where your body is made of flesh, not bytes…]The term appears in
science fiction literature, specifically thecyberpunk genre.Fact|date=September 2008Some early uses of the term include a post to the Usenet newsgroup austin.public-net on Feb. 21, 1993 [cite web
url = http://groups.google.com/group/austin.public-net/browse_thread/thread/ab22c492a3319c44/798af58d879feba0?q=meatspace&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dmeatspace%26start%3D0%26scoring%3Dd%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26as_qdr%3D%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D31%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D2%26as_maxm%3D3%26as_maxy%3D1996%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#798af58d879feba0
title = Austin CyberSpace Journal #1
accessdate = 2008-03-13
last = Barnes
first = Douglas
date =1993-02-21
quote = Meatspace update (quick rundown on where/how to interact with net.folks in meatspace, i.e., regular events, social gatherings, restaurant hangouts, etc.)] and an article in the Seattle Times aboutJohn Perry Barlow on October 30, 1995 [cite web
url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2149736&date=19951030&query=meatspace
title = He's Trying To Build A Community On-Line -- Grateful Dead Lyricist Ventures Into Cyberspace
accessdate = 2008-03-13
last = Andrews
first = Paul
date =1995-10-30
quote = John Perry Barlow is multitasking between cyberspace, meatspace and parentspace about as well as a mere mortal can do.] .The term entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2000 [cite web
url = http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=36770
title = 'Lookist' Britain: the way we look inspires the new English
accessdate = 2008-03-13] .ee also
* IRL
*Face time
*Face-to-face
*Off-line
*Reality
*Brick and mortar External links
* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/meatspace.html Meatspace] from the
Jargon File .
* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meatspace Meatspace] from theUrban Dictionary .
*cite web
url = http://ask.metafilter.com/15851/Origin-of-the-term-meatspace
title = Origin of the term meatspace?
accessdate = 2008-04-02
*cite web
url = http://www.wordspy.com/words/meatspace.asp
title = Word Spy - meatspace
accessdate = 2008-04-02References
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