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- From: cs291@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jonathan A. Rochkind)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Is it just me?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:38:55 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan26.055917.26789@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1k1kf3INNids@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan26.033608.27457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Reply-To: cs291@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jonathan A. Rochkind)
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- In a previous article, jmilhoan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (JT) says:
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- >In article <1993Jan26.033608.27457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (prozac) writes:
- >>Somewhere in Cyberspace, aj428@cleveland.Freenet.Edu said about 'Is it
- >>just me?':
- >>
- >>|Yes! Sometimes I wonder if this news group would exist at all if it
- >>|wasn't for William Gibson. Enough! I hate icons! Blah, Blah....
- >
- >
- >Are you going to be talking about "the good old days... when muds were
- >TEXT!" when 3d graphics processing is a reality? ;)
- >
- >
- >>damn that Windows...damn that Finder....
- >
- >damn all symbols, or anything that can't be explained more difficultly
- >with words... oh, and btw, icons have been around for a lot longer
- >than Neuromancer. ;) I don't think it is Gibson's fault.
-
- Umm, I think he was using the term "icon" in it's sense as a religious
- symbol, a cult figure type of thing. As in he hates it when William Gibson
- is used as an icon for the whole cyberpunk new edge thing. I think. You
- seem to be using it in it's meaning as those little graphics on your
- computer screen that mean files. I dont' think you are communicating on the
- same wavelength.
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