cyberpetn.
/ˈsʌɪbəpɛt/, U.S. /ˈsaɪbərˌpɛt/ 1. Computing. A program able to interact with similar programs on other computers via the internet. rare.
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1993 Networking Commands in alt.internet.services (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Aug. What I would like this program to do is basically interact with the other programs are [read on] different machines and change data in a specific data file that keeps track of stats or whatever... I'd just like to create ‘cyberPets’ that can interact with other ‘cyberPets’ on my friends' machines.
2. = virtual pet n. at virtual adj. and n. Compounds.
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1995 Asahi News Service (Nexis) 27 Feb. Another junior high school girl in the Tokyo area wrote about her grief over a pet hamster that died, and how she overcame her sadness after meeting the cyber-pet.
1997 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 16 May y1 Adult Tamagotchi owners are reporting incidents of being beeped by their cyberpets during important meetings and phone calls.
2006 Dogs Monthly July 54/2 Many people over the last few years have come to develop strong emotional attachments to their Aibo cyber-pets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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