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Re:Lamson - email app coding without the palm sweat by hachiya on Friday July 03, 2009 @10:21PM (#686818)
I've only seen the term, "meatspace", in the last few weeks. Is this some new nerd trend? Attempting to ostracise yourself from the general public by referring to them with degrading inhuman terms such as this is a rather stupid idea, IMHO.
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Re:Lamson - email app coding without the palm sweat by rdouble on Friday July 03, 2009 @10:44PM (#686836)
I've only seen the term, "meatspace", in the last few weeks. Is this some new nerd trend?

It's at least 15 years old and faded out with the rest of the "cyberpunk" genre.

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Re:Lamson - email app coding without the palm sweat by caffeine on Sunday July 05, 2009 @06:07AM (#688094)
It's not really an attempt to ostracize oneself from the general public by referring to them with degrading inhuman terms.

It's just a handy word to refer to stuff that's not online.

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