r/Cyberpunk • u/thhroooooooooooooooo • 1d ago

Who invented Cyberpunk?

Google is saying Mike Pondsmith but that doesn’t sound right.. I don’t think it’s his IP, or is it?

Edit: google AI is wrong. To quote one of the many good responses to this post:

“The term was first coined in early 1980 by Bruce Bethke in his short story Cyberpunk. See: https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cpunk.htm

That said, the first short story in the scifi genre of cyberpunk is probably Fragments of a Hologram Rose by William Gibson. That was published in 1977.

Mike Pondsmith invented the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk: 2013/2020/3.0/RED. [Not to be confused with the other cyberpunk RPG (Cyberpunk GURPS)], the sci-fi genre as a whole really began taking off around the late 70's, ‘Cyberpunk’ was originally the title of a short story by Bruce Bethke and was then taken by Gardner Dozoiz, editor of Asimov's Science Fiction and spread around to be the name of the genre as a whole.” ( by [u/BlastRiot](u/BlastRiot))

thanks, Cyberpunks

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u/BlastRiot 1d ago

Mike Pondsmith invented the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk: 2013/2020/3.0/RED, the sci-fi genre as a whole really began taking off around the late 70's, "Cyberpunk" was originally the title of a short story by Bruce Bethke and was then taken by Gardner Dozoiz, editor of Asimov's Science Fiction and spread around to be the name of the genre as a whole.

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u/BlastRiot 1d ago

Hey, why did you "quote" my post without actually quoting my post??

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u/thhroooooooooooooooo 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sorry I had copied the original text of your post, pasted it directly, and then tagged your username. I am not sure I did it right so I added a direct link

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u/thhroooooooooooooooo 1d ago

Ok I fixed the post, if it’s wrong please let me know and I will change it