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AOL didn't exist when Neuromancer was written.

While the others did, Gibson seemed not to have been aware of them, and he didn't even own a computer at the time.

You can tell his vision of cyberspace came entirely from his imagination because it doesn't even remotely resemble any actual computer systems of the day.



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