History Main / Cyberspace

* The fictional town in ''Anime/DennouCoil'' has a virtual reality accessible via glasses that's more or less this.

* Thomas Holden's {{Literature/Void Forge}} follows a group of game developers trapped in a VR world they helped create.

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'' has the City of Light, a shared virtual reality that anyone who has taken one of A.L.I.E.'s computer chips can enter by meditating, or choose to remain in permanently even after their physical body has died.

Rather than go DownTheRabbitHole into a SpiritWorld, the character puts on some VR goggles, [[UnusualUserInterface plugs an Ethernet cable]] [[BrainComputerInterface into his skull]], or gets "digitized" into data. What do they see when they go online? A pretty nifty 3D world, designed as a ViewerFriendlyInterface made up of {{Holographic Terminal}}s over a background full of MatrixRainingCode superimposed over TronLines. Not only is [[EverythingIsOnline everything online,]] you can expect "surfing" from one site/database to another to be handled with all the aesthetic aplomb of a DesignStudentsOrgasm and to be completely lagless.

* Season 4 of ''Series/AgentsofShield'' introduces The Framework, a virtual Earth designed to give those properly logged in a shared world where they each experience how their lives would have gone without their deepest regret, and a place to save human consciousness from death. It's so advanced that those inside can't tell the difference between it and reality, and the AI's who take the form of the residents not logged in believe they ''are'' those people.

* The ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' episode ''Don't Hate The Player'' involves a stereotypical rescue mission into an Artefact-enhanced VR computer game. Pete takes the opportunity to be a [[WalkingShirtlessScene gladiator]], Leena gets enhanced with an impressive pair of... [[LastSecondWordSwap wings]], and Claudia is horrified to discover that her image has been used for an insipid princess. Oh, and the VR sequences are [[{{Rotoscoping}} rotoscoped]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'', the titular character and his friends are turned into data and trapped inside a computer game after being zapped by an experimental laser. They quickly realize that the only way to escape cyber space is to beat the game, but a sentient malware is sent by the film's villain to thwart their escape.

* The lair of the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] [[PompousPoliticalPundit news reporter]] Bob Barbas in ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' has this aesthetic. Bob's demonic form is a holographic-looking [[OracularHead head]] composed of translucent data cubes, and he attacks Dante with rectangular blasts of electricity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dystopia}}'', which has a {{Cyberpunk}} setting, features Cyberspace as an significant part of gameplay.
** Your Commander during the tutorial justifies the techy-ness by saying:

** And finally, ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' allows Sora and Riku to enter The Grid, which is the computer world based on ''Film/TronLegacy''. Unlike the other computer worlds, The Grid can be directly selected from the "World Selection", though in this case, it's because of it's a Dream World. This is the only time in the series where a program [[spoiler: ([[{{ActionGirl}} Quorra]])]] actually gets to leave their computer world.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Porygon and its upgraded forms were designed to be able to enter and move freely here.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX 4'' features Cyber Peacock's level set in cyber space, ''X5'' had the "Zero Space" final levels and the TropeNamer ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]]'' series had cyberspace as the parallel world where Cyber Elves and reploid souls live, which is essentially the source code of reality, such that Cyber Elves do their magic by hacking cyberspace.
** The ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' Series however takes this trope and runs with it, as it is an alternate telling of Mega Man where the net is the height of technology, not robotics.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Especially the Digital Sea in Season 4.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' is set in one.

* Creator/KenAkamatsu has a way of depicting the internet as an endless ocean ala his first work ''Manga/AILoveYou'' and later work ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. Tuna is a DOS attack...

* Like its inspiration ''Anime/DotHack'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork,'' ''{{TOME}}'' features Cyberspace as an interface used to access the world of the game. This is most noticeable in ''TvTomeAdventures,'' which features the most [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness soft]] Sci-Fi compared to the reboot universe and especially the RPG adaptation (where TOME is just a video game with no sci-fi cyberspace elements).

* The final segment of ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' involves the Chinese and Russian supercomputers teleporting AM's victims [[spoiler: the number of which, vary according to how well you helped them out]]; into AM's "RAM-space". It resembles a huge cerebral landscape pockmarked with shards of broken glass lodged in the tissue, occasional bits of machinery, and huge columns representing AM's primary components.

* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/LabyrinthOfReflections'' series revolves around "the Deep", a CyberSpace that allows full immersion through a series of hypnotic images that each user is subjected to before going online. The images put the user in a sort of trance where their brain "fixes" the imperfect virtual reality of the Deep by perceiving it as a photo-realistic space, allowing for full immersion. NormalPeople can't leave the trance on their own but some (aptly dubbed "Divers") can and their primary job is finding people who are stuck in Cyberspace and bail them out before they die of dehydration in RealLife.

* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/LabyrinthOfReflections'' series revolves around "the Deep", a CyberSpace that allows full immersion through a series of hypnotic images that each user is subjected to before going online. The images put the user in a sort of trance where their brain "fixes" the imperfect virtual reality of the Deep by perceiving it as a photo-realistic space, allowing for full immersion. NormalPeople can't leave the trance on their own but some (aptly dubbed "Divers") can and their primary job is finding people who are stuck in CyberSpace and bail them out before they die of dehydration in RealLife.

** In ''[[UpdatedRerelease Final Mix+]]'', Sora can visit the Cavern of Remembrance, where he can fight data simulations of the members of Organization XIII. ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartscoded Kingdom Hearts coded]]'' takes place in CyberSpace and stars a digital copy of Sora.

* Befitting the franchise, most of ''[[VideoGame/{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]]'' was set here. The plot involved a greedy rival corporation planning to explolit the digital world by digitizing a squad of mercenaries to steal and manipulate everything from state secrets to global finance in a bid to TakeOverTheWorld.

* Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet mostly takes place inside of the internet, with Ralph and Vanellope walking around it like one of their arcade games in [[Disney/WreckItRalph the first film.]] Many alements of the internet are [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphised]] such as [=KnowsMore=] being a search engine and Yesss being an algorithm.

* Also featuring Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/IceT, and a talking dolphin: ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''.

Sometimes, a HolodeckMalfunction turns Cyberspace outright dangerous -- not just online, but in real life, because YourMindMakesItReal. It may take an OrpheanRescue to get those trapped out.

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* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' features this.

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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''The Deadly Assassin'', set on the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey, had the Doctor venturing into a cyber dreamscape called the Matrix.
** The Matrix of "The Deadly Assassin" is unique in that it's not meant for a living person to go into AT ALL. It's basically a library of dead Time Lords' neural impulses, which are used to forecast future events and figure out how to deal with them. It only serves the "alternate dimension" function because the Master has tampered with it big-time.

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* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog:''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has the Matrix, which plays this to its conclusion as nerds obviously would. Systems can use the default ''Franchise/{{Tron}}''-inspired iconography, but can be programmed to be anything; libraries with books for files and librarians for security to overgrown jungle ruins with treasures for files and angry natives for security. Deckers in turn can be anything from underage wizards with wands and glasses to BFG-toting commandos. Which leads to the awesome possibilities of {{Rambo}} clones getting their asses kicked by librarians or teenage wizards disabling angry natives with butterscotch syrup.