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cyberpunk
- a term loosely describing an antisocial individual conforming to a peculiar lifestyle characterized by an obsession with both computers and the dark side of the Internet.
cyberspace
- the abstract, non-physical world made up of networked computers where people communicate, shop, study, research, play, socialize and otherwise interact.
Cybertown
- a virtual community set in the latter half of the 21st Century that may be accessed through the Netscape Web browser, Netscape Navigator.
Cybrarian
- an online research junkie.
cycle
- the unit of measure which is a single oscillation of a computer’s CPU clock. Programs running concurrently are competing for cycles.
Cyrix
- a subsidiary of National Semiconductor that designs, develops, manufactures semiconductor products, including microprocessors for the personal computer industry, and analog, mixed-signal and other integrated circuits for applications in a variety of markets, including the information appliances, personal systems, wireless communications, flat panel and CRT display, power management, local and wide area networks, automotive, consumer and military aerospace markets.

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A few words from Tech Support:
"If you're an intern, feel free to bring in all your friends from college and have your Daddy complain to our boss when we won't let them use the scanner. We had no friends when we were in college; that's why we're such a bunch of tight-assed little twerps."
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