Author Bruce Sterling, who popularized this meaning, credits John Perry Barlow as the first to use it to refer to " the present-day nexus of computer and telecommunications networks.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

Feeling sympathy for the Japanese, Emmy reveals the truth behind the Futurians ' mission: In the future, Japan became very wealthy and its economy surpassed that of the United States, Russia and China-the Futurians in fact stole the time machine and plan to use King Ghidorah to alter the future by devastating or subjugating present-day Japan, thus preventing its future economic reign.

The first documented instance of hop cultivation was in 736, in the Hallertau region of present-day Germany, although the first mention of the use of hops in brewing in that country was 1079 .< ref >

The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover information about the history of deformation ( strain ) in the rocks, and ultimately, to understand the stress field that resulted in the observed strain and geometries.

It met in AD 787 in Nicaea ( site of the First Council of Nicaea ; present-day İznik in Turkey ) to restore the use and veneration of icons ( or, holy images ), which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III ( 717 – 741 ).

) Vin is a common name on old farms from Norse times in Norway, and present-day use of the word are Bjørgvin, the Norse ( and Icelandic ) name of Bergen, and Granvin, where-vin translates as ' pasture ' in both.

Z. Budapest promoted the use of " wimmin " ( singular " womon ") in the 1970s as part of her Dianic Wicca movement, which claims that present-day patriarchy represents a fall from a matriarchal golden age.

Some versions of Rogue only made use of capital letters, but present-day roguelikes vary capitalization to supply additional visual cues.

Such computers are physically small compared to mainframes and minicomputers, although present-day mainframes such as the IBM System z machines use one or more custom microprocessors as their CPUs.

Detailed variations between different Hebrew texts in use still clearly existed though, as witnessed by differences between the present-day Masoretic text and versions mentioned in the Gemara, and often even Halachic midrashim based on spelling versions which do not exist in the current Masoretic text.

Traditionalist Catholics often use it in a pejorative manner, and sometimes employ it as a blanket condemnatory term for the present-day Church (" the Novus Ordo Church ").

Latest archaeological studies show that the present-day market-place was already in use in the first century.

The original accounts did use the term pueri, but it had a derogatory slang meaning, as in present-day calling an adult man a " boy " to be condescending.

While " Old County Road " east of the railroad track had been in use as a stage line since at least 1850, the present-day layout west of the railroad track was constructed in the first years of 1900.

The present-day brick courthouse, built in the Greek Revival style of architecture, is one of only four pre-Civil War courthouses in Louisiana still in use.

Most of the wooded parts of present-day Australia have become sclerophyll dominated as a result of the extreme age of the continent combined with Aboriginal fire use.

The sensitivity to rotation is proportional to the area circumscribed by the counter-rotating beams, and fibre optic gyroscopes, present-day descendants of the Sagnac interferometer, use thousands of loops of optical fibre rather than mirrors, such that even small to medium sized units easily detect the rotation of the Earth.

For instance, they installed a monument at the site of a spring where Polly Hawkins Craig and other women got water to use against flaming arrows, in the defense of Bryan Station ( present-day Lexington, Kentucky ).

In 1983, Cinemax's parent company Time-Life Inc. ( which merged with Warner Communications in 1989 to form the present-day Time Warner ), had filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit against then-independent station KOKI ( channel 23, now a Fox affiliate ) in Tulsa, Oklahoma and its owners Tulsa 23, Ltd. over the use of the slogan " We Are Your Movie Star " ( which was Cinemax's slogan at that time ).

He withdrew to Tazhong ( 沓中 ; also in present-day Gannan ), and, apprehensive that Huang Hao might take this opportunity to damage him politically, did not dare to return to the Shu Han capital Chengdu, but remained at Tazhong, perhaps to carry out one strategy that Zhuge considered late in his campaigns — have soldiers grow wheat to use as next year's food supply.

The oath inspired the present-day secret societies in Chinese communities, such as the Triads, to use a similar ritual when swearing in new members.

It has a central shaft meant for use as a zenith telescope and for use in gravity and pendulum experiments that connects to an underground laboratory for observers to work ( accessible from the present-day ticket booth ).

Systems like the Compatible Time-Sharing System introduced the concept of a file system, which managed several virtual " files " on one storage device, giving the term its present-day meaning.

His nickname Unræd is usually translated into present-day English as " The Unready ", though, because the present-day meaning of " unready " no longer resembles its ancient counterpart, this translation disguises the meaning of the Old English term.

In most present-day contexts however, in general the term Flanders is taken to refer to either the political, social, cultural, and linguistic community ( and the corresponding official institution, the Flemish Community ), or the geographical area, one of the three institutional regions in Belgium, namely the Flemish Region.

It was during Ottoman rule that the term Greater Syria was coined to designate the approximate area included in present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel / Palestine.

Glaciation took place repeatedly during the Quaternary Ice Age – a term coined by Schimper in 1839 that began with the start of the Quaternary about 2. 58 Mya and continues to the present-day.

The term is used in the French language and some others ; hence, some present-day horse racing tracks are also called hippodromes, for example the Central Moscow Hippodrome.

Those who regularly used the term neoliberalism in the 1980s typically applied it in its present-day, radical sense, denoting market fundamentalism.

Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget ( present-day Office of Management and Budget ) in 1959, the Springfield SMA became the Springfield Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area ( Springfield SMSA ).

The term " airport ", rather than airfield, is used to describe the present-day facility because it has a terminal building and customs facilities.

The term continues to be used in present-day observational cosmology, but Wirtz's observational evidence that the Universe is expanding is not often mentioned.

In present-day American English, both " kay " and " m ' kay " are attested modern pronunciations of the term.

As national and linguistic boundaries during this period do not correspond with national borders today, the term " Netherlandish " is not meant to refer to the present-day boundaries of the nation known as the Netherlands ( or Holland ); relatively few of the musicians originated within that region.

The term is also used extensively in the history of science for historiography that focuses on the successful chain of theories and experiments that lead to present-day science, while ignoring failed theories and dead ends.

At the time when the NSP was established, the term " national socialism " carried none of its present-day right-wing connotations.

Bernoulli used the Latin word urna, which primarily means a clay vessel, but is also the term used in ancient Rome for a vessel of any kind for collecting ballots or lots ; the present-day Italian word for ballot box is still urna.

There are records of an instrument named gusle ( гоусли ) being played at the court of the 13th-century Serbian King Stefan Nemanjić, but it is not certain whether the term was used in its present-day meaning or it denoted some other kind of string instrument.

Historical township boundaries are of interest in Atlantic Canada especially by those conducting genealogical research. The historic colony of Nova Scotia ( present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island ) used the term township as a subdivision of counties.

In present-day Germany, the term is usually meant to refer only to the territories lost in World War II.

In the present-day Russian Federation, the term " okrug " is either translated as " district " or rendered directly as " okrug ", and is used to describe the following types of divisions:

The term Renape is a common Algonquian word meaning " true humans ", as in the name Lenape ( Lenni Lenape ) — the native inhabitants of the land that is present-day New Jersey and Pennsylvania.