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Cyberspace just puts a modern spin on the idea.
Cyberspace just puts a modern spin on the idea.


Rather than go [[Down the Rabbit Hole]] into a [[Spirit World]], the character puts on some VR goggles, [[Unusual User Interface|plugs an Ethernet cable into his skull]], or gets "digitized" into data. What do they see when they go online? A pretty nifty 3D world, designed as a [[Viewer Friendly Interface]] made up of [[Holographic Terminal|Holographic Terminals]] over a background full of [[Matrix Raining Code]] superimposed over [[Tron Lines]]. Not only is [[Everything Is Online|everything online,]] you can expect "surfing" from one site/database to another to be handled with all the aesthetic aplomb of a [[Design Students Orgasm|Design Student's Orgasm]] and to be completely lagless.
Rather than go [[Down the Rabbit Hole]] into a [[Spirit World]], the character puts on some VR goggles, [[Unusual User Interface|plugs an Ethernet cable into his skull]], or gets "digitized" into data. What do they see when they go online? A pretty nifty 3D world, designed as a [[Viewer Friendly Interface]] made up of [[Holographic Terminal|Holographic Terminals]] over a background full of [[Matrix Raining Code]] superimposed over [[Tron Lines]]. Not only is [[Everything Is Online|everything online,]] you can expect "surfing" from one site/database to another to be handled with all the aesthetic aplomb of a [[Design Student's Orgasm]] and to be completely lagless.


One curious alternative idea that seems to infest many cyberspaces is travel time... [[The Metaverse]] of ''[[Snow Crash]]'' has people ''walking to the shops on [[The Internet]]''. This could be seen as the illogical conclusion to the increasingly graphical user interface design evolution from the concise but user-unfriendly command line to drag-and-drop windows and pointers and presumably to the final stages where [[Extreme Graphical Representation|your avatar crumples up your virtual document and walks over to the virtual bin with it]]. People in the future clearly have a phenomenal amount of patience with their user interfaces. Essentially, Cyberspace [[Stylistic Suck|is stylized into]] a simulation that's [[Lotus Eater Machine|virtually indistinguishable from real life]], and less of a recreational pastime or tool.
One curious alternative idea that seems to infest many cyberspaces is travel time... [[The Metaverse]] of ''[[Snow Crash]]'' has people ''walking to the shops on [[The Internet]]''. This could be seen as the illogical conclusion to the increasingly graphical user interface design evolution from the concise but user-unfriendly command line to drag-and-drop windows and pointers and presumably to the final stages where [[Extreme Graphical Representation|your avatar crumples up your virtual document and walks over to the virtual bin with it]]. People in the future clearly have a phenomenal amount of patience with their user interfaces. Essentially, Cyberspace [[Stylistic Suck|is stylized into]] a simulation that's [[Lotus Eater Machine|virtually indistinguishable from real life]], and less of a recreational pastime or tool.
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Frequently pops up in [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Post Cyber Punk]] settings. See also [[The Metaverse]], which is when society at large uses the Internet this way. Compare [[Platonic Cave]]. Also compare [[Hard Light]], where Cyberspace can manipulate the physical world.
Frequently pops up in [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Post Cyber Punk]] settings. See also [[The Metaverse]], which is when society at large uses the Internet this way. Compare [[Platonic Cave]]. Also compare [[Hard Light]], where Cyberspace can manipulate the physical world.
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== Anime & Manga ==
== Anime & Manga ==
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* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Deadly Assassin'', set on the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey, had the Doctor venturing into a cyber dreamscape called the Matrix.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Deadly Assassin'', set on the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey, had the Doctor venturing into a cyber dreamscape called the Matrix.
** The Matrix of "The Deadly Assassin" is unique in that it's not meant for a living person to go into AT ALL. It's basically a library of dead Time Lords' neural impulses, which are used to forecast future events and figure out how to deal with them. It only serves the "alternate dimension" function because the Master has tampered with it big-time.
** The Matrix of "The Deadly Assassin" is unique in that it's not meant for a living person to go into AT ALL. It's basically a library of dead Time Lords' neural impulses, which are used to forecast future events and figure out how to deal with them. It only serves the "alternate dimension" function because the Master has tampered with it big-time.
* ''[[VR Troopers]]'' featured virtual reality as an [[Alternate Universe]], so things created in VR (such as [[Mecha Mooks]], [[One Winged Angel|supervillain forms]], and a [[Monster of the Week]] for every occasion) could be brought into reality. "Virtual Reality" tends to resemble the [[BBC Quarry]] in most episodes.
* ''[[VR Troopers]]'' featured virtual reality as an [[Alternate Universe]], so things created in VR (such as [[Mecha Mooks]], [[One-Winged Angel|supervillain forms]], and a [[Monster of the Week]] for every occasion) could be brought into reality. "Virtual Reality" tends to resemble the [[BBC Quarry]] in most episodes.
* ''[[Fat Guy Stuck in Internet]]'' portrays cyberspace as the [[Another Dimension|other dimension]] form of this trope.
* ''[[Fat Guy Stuck in Internet]]'' portrays cyberspace as the [[Another Dimension|other dimension]] form of this trope.
* Although we never see it from his perspective, [[Monster of the Week|Moloch]] in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' deliberately mixes cyberspace with this trope's pre-digital roots. A demon imprisoned in the pages of a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|cursed book]], Moloch is accidentally transferred into cyberspace when the book's pages are scanned. Though he's technically still not free, the demon finds being "trapped" in the Internet to be far more [[A God Am I|empowering]].
* Although we never see it from his perspective, [[Monster of the Week|Moloch]] in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' deliberately mixes cyberspace with this trope's pre-digital roots. A demon imprisoned in the pages of a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|cursed book]], Moloch is accidentally transferred into cyberspace when the book's pages are scanned. Though he's technically still not free, the demon finds being "trapped" in the Internet to be far more [[A God Am I|empowering]].
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