Etymology

cybertext

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Today it means: Text on a computer, particularly hypertext Full definition →

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The story

From cyber- + text, perhaps popularised by Espen J. Aarseth's 1997 "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature"; though "The Cybertext Corporation" existed in Arcata in the 1980s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.