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The first "Punk" came out
Early use of the word “punk" to signify a criminal.Originally the term ‘cyberpunk’ was meant to be a only character type name, meaning "a young, technologically facile, ethically vacuous, computer-assisted vandal or criminal". Nowadays the term means much more, it’s the name for whole subculture and movement. -
The word ”cybernetics" coined
The word ”cybernetics" coined by Norbert Wiener. ’Cyber’ comes from ’cybernetics’, which is a science studying control and communication in the animal and the machine. -
The word ”cyborg" coined
The word ”cyborg" coined by Manfred Clynes "Cyborg" is a science-fictional shorting of "cybernetic organism". The logical conclusion is that one might become a brain in a wholly artificial body. And the step after that is to replace your meat brain by a computer brain. -
The cyberpunk project and Cyberpunk information database opened and William Gibson’s and Tom Maddox’s episode, “Kill Switch” premiers on The X-Files. At the mean time, Burning Chrome stage adaptation opens in Chicago.
In this year.The cyberpunk project and Cyberpunk information database opened and William Gibson’s and Tom Maddox’s episode, “Kill Switch” premiers on The X-Files. At the mean time, Burning Chrome stage adaptation opens in Chicago. -
X-Files
William Gibson’s and Tom Maddox’s second episode “First Person Shooter" on The X-Files. X-Files episode 13 on season 7, "First Person Shooter", is written by cyberpunk authors William Gibson and Tom Maddox, and directed by Chris Carter. The episode was originally on air in 2000. A murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game leads Scully to battle a deadly digital character in order to save Mulder’s life.
