
Gibson's Neuromancer is the book that really launched Cyberpunk as a genre (sorry, Bruce Sterling) and set a lot of the modern ideas of the internet, including usage of the term cyberspace. Interestingly, Gibson wasn't way ahead of his time in terms of actual technology usage, he wrote the book on a typewriter.

Write a blog, they said. It'll be fun, they said. With over 15 years of experience in building, launching, and running web applications, I might have a few things to say.