May 27, 2008
"The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world. Only faster."

Modern Love - Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend - Series - NYTimes.com

This is roughly why people stopped putting “e-” before everything and saying “cyberspace” non-ironically. (Even William Gibson, the guy that invented the term, really stepped towards a new way of thinking about the Internet in Pattern Recognition. You could write a whole paper on this sort of thing. I did.)  

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