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1928 saw the early use of the word "punk" to signify a criminal.
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this term was coined by Bruce Bethke in his short story titled 'Cyberpunk'.
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'Blade Runner' directed by Ridley Scott gave cyberppunk its visual representaion.
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"Neuromancer" was a novel written by William Gibson. It was a cyberpunk genre and was his first book and told the story of a computer hacker who was hired to pull of the ultimate hack. This won sveral science fiction awards.
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several cybberpunk games have been created. 'Cyberpunk 2020' is a role-playing game which was written by Mike Pndsmith and published by R.Talsorian Games.