cybertown
nounEtymology From cyber- + town.
1
The social equivalent of a town on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online community.
- Unlike the many artificial worlds being built today on the Internet — including elaborate cybertowns with "virtual" apartments — the PlaceHolder reinforces the sense of place with ambient 3-D sound and kinesthetic appropriation.1998, Michael Heim, Virtual Realism, page 70:
- Hypernyms
- cybercommunity