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Meatspace refers to real life or the physical world, and is conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtuality.[1]

The term has appeared in the Financial Times[2] and in science fiction literature, specifically the cyberpunk genre.

Some early uses of the term include a post to the Usenet newsgroup austin.public-net in 1993[3] and an article in the Seattle Times about John Perry Barlow in 1995.[4] The term entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2000.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Dodero, Camille (17 July 2006). "Does your life suck?". The Phoenix. http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid17440.aspx. Retrieved 2007-07-23. "Beyond this world, in real life — a/k/a what Second Lifers refer to as "meatspace," where your body is made of flesh, not bytes…"  
  2. ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0f71fb6-3243-11db-ab06-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=4e612cca-6707-11da-a650-0000779e2340,print=yes.html
  3. ^ Barnes, Douglas (21 February 1993). "Austin CyberSpace Journal #1". http://groups.google.com/group/austin.public-net/browse_thread/thread/ab22c492a3319c44/798af58d879feba0?q=meatspace&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dmeatspace%26start%3D0%26scoring%3Dd%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26as_qdr%3D%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D31%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D2%26as_maxm%3D3%26as_maxy%3D1996%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#798af58d879feba0. Retrieved 2008-03-13. "Meatspace update (quick rundown on where/how to interact with net.folks in meatspace, i.e., regular events, social gatherings, restaurant hangouts, etc.)"  
  4. ^ Andrews, Paul (30 October 1995). "He's Trying To Build A Community On-Line -- Grateful Dead Lyricist Ventures Into Cyberspace". http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2149736&date=19951030&query=meatspace. Retrieved 2008-03-13. "John Perry Barlow is multitasking between cyberspace, meatspace and parentspace about as well as a mere mortal can do."  
  5. ^ "'Lookist' Britain: the way we look inspires the new English". http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=36770. Retrieved 2008-03-13.  

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