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"Cyberpunk worked when the Internet was in its hand-wound crystal radio phase, when you had to be a sort of hobbyist to do e-mail, and it all had a very steep learning curve. Those days are over."
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Very early use of this expression.
John Victor Petersen also uses this expression, as in this excerpt from Lie on the Beam (1941):
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'Tell me your torments,' the Padre said, in an elderly voice marked with compassion.
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'...to build up a video picture would require, say, ten million decisions every second. Mike, you're so fast I can't even think about it. But you aren't that fast.'
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