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The word 'punk' has always associated with someone in inferiority or someone whom was not a 'good person'. In 1928, the word punk began getting associated with the image of 'criminal'.
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Key events: Words like computer, robot, cyborg, and punk are created; Computers like The Difference Engine and ENIAC are built, while Pascal, Boole, Babbage, & Turing make contributions; Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics; Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone; AT&T rises to become a monopoly; Late 60s counterculture; 70s Punk; Kraftwerk forms and changes music.
You can find the original online source here:
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The movie Bladerunner was released. This is considered the first ever movie to be filed in the cyberpunk genre.
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WIlliam Gibson publishes the first book of his 'Sprawl Trilogy' which is strongly based on the notion and genre of cyberpunk.
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William Gibson, arguably the 'founder' of the cyberpunk genre writes an article for TIME magazine in which he describes modern Japan, namely Shibuya, Tokyo as a contemporary setting for all that is cyberpunk.
You can find the online article here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1956774,00.html