Meatspace

All you want to know about Meatspace

Meatspace is a word referring to real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality.^[1]

Meatspace can also refer to any place with a high quantity of meat.

The term has appeared in newspaper articles in the Financial Times, in science fiction literature, specifically the cyberpunk genre.^{[citation needed]}

Some early uses of the term include a post to the Usenet newsgroup austin.public-net on Feb. 21, 1993^[2] and an article in the Seattle Times about John Perry Barlow on October 30, 1995 ^[3]. The term entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2000 ^[4].

References

^ Dodero, Camille (2006-07-17). "Does your life suck?". The Phoenix. Retrieved on 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…"
^ Barnes, Douglas (1993-02-21). "Austin CyberSpace Journal #1". Retrieved on 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.)"
^ Andrews, Paul (1995-10-30). "He's Trying To Build A Community On-Line -- Grateful Dead Lyricist Ventures Into Cyberspace". Retrieved on 2008-03-13. "John Perry Barlow is multitasking between cyberspace, meatspace and parentspace about as well as a mere mortal can do."
^ "'Lookist' Britain: the way we look inspires the new English". Retrieved on 2008-03-13.