"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. … A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace(sic) of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
The word cyberspace was coined by William Gibson in the novelette Burning Chrome, but was more notably popularized by the above quote from page 69 of his latter publication, Neuromancer in 1984.
A fear or suspicion that providing information, such as a password or email address, in order to access an application or website could conceivably make one vulnerable to attack by phishers, hackers or viruses.
Nigel refused to accept the application request "See Who Has Been Viewing My Profile" on Facebook because he was cyberstitious to the nth degree after having been previously phished.
A cybertard is someone who is ignorant of the way that things work on the internet even after having had enough time to learn, especially when it comes to internet scammers. The definition may extend to people who are clueless about other internet knowledge, such as basic html coding, how to navigate an online forum, etc.
A cybertard is someone who lacks "cyber smarts" (akin to "streetsmarts").
Syn: permanoob
"John fell for that MySpace phishing bulletin and his account got hacked... he's such a cybertard".