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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."
- William Gibson
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| Videophone | ||
| A person-to-person communication device that can transmit both picture and sound. |
I'm not sure if this is the first use of the term; van Vogt is certainly not the first sf writer to use the idea.
| He closed the door, fastened the three plasto-windows and put a tracer on his videophone. |
| From World of Null-A,
by A.E. van Vogt. Published by Astounding SF in 1945 Additional resources -
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For an earlier version of this idea, see the telephot from Hugo Gernsback's classic 1911 novel Ralph 124c 41 +.
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