cybernautn.

1965 Avengers (Television programme) (title of episode) The Cybernauts.

1985 New Eng. Q. 58 613 [Wyndham] Lewis painted a world of cybernauts, turning Shakespeare's Timon into a ululating machine.

1992 D. Adams Mostly Harmless vi. 65 Ford..yanked the flying robot in with him. He squatted down and peered at the burbling cybernaut.

2002 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Features section) 3 Massive Attack musician Rob Del Naha has a giant cybernaut robot inside the front door of his Bristol flat.

1973 A. B. Harris (title) The compleat cybernaut.

1989 Personal Computing (Nexis) May 247 Cybernauts cannot yet live in cyberspace, but they at least have the satisfaction of knowing that their viral creations can.

1995 Economist 8 Apr. 17/1 Whether a place on it [sc. the Internet] is physically located in Atlanta or Amsterdam matters little to a cybernaut.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 13 July 31 There is a community of voluntary cybernauts who..can tell sense from nonsense, and outnumber the minority of extremists, jerks and trolls.

1990 Digital Rev. 16 July 12/4 As promising as the virtual reality may seem, however, would-be ‘cybernauts’ need to keep their enthusiasm in check.

1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 70/1 The technologies used..will..change radically during the coming decade, making the begoggled cybernaut as quaint an image as the undersea explorer in a heavy metal diving helmet.

2005 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 31 Oct. g5 The world has a minimum age requirement of 18, but for younger cybernauts, Second Life offers a separate ‘teen grid’.