too appropriate

[boxofdelights]

The OED is offering a word that entered the English language the same year you entered the world.

1963
Your OED birthday word is:
cyberculture, n.
Meaning: The social conditions brought about by widespread automation and computerization; (in later use also) the culture surrounding computers and (esp.) the Internet.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

We're quite the au courant pair: mine was "artificial intelligence" for 1955.

Odd how I think of these concepts as part of science fiction, as near to now. But whatever is succesful now, there were outliers drawing new maps 50 years ago.

[wordweaverlynn]

Mine's "beat poetry" for 1959.

[delphi]

*sighs* I got "Shopaholic."

[cme]

Mine was "bagsy", roughly equivalent to the American "dibs". Some bits of Diana Wynne Jones make more sense now!

[susanreads]

1957: oenophilic, adj. (means wine-loving, Which I'm not, unless ginger wine counts)

[lisajulie]

Mine (1956) was nitpick.

[dorothean]

gobsmacked, adj.
Meaning: Flabbergasted, astounded; speechless or incoherent with amazement.

This is for 1985. I'm surprised it's not older!