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Neuromancer
"And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3d chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach"
From William Gibson's Neuromancer
Published in 1984 neuromancer forsaw the invention of the World Wide Web and all of its related interlinkages, and began the 'Cyberpunk' revolution.