Original: The Cyberpunk genre emerged in the early 1980s; combining "cybernetics" and "punk", the term was coined by author Bruce Bethke for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk".
Simplified: Cyberpunk began in the early 1980s. Bruce Bethke used this word as the title for a short story in 1980 by putting together two words: "cybernetics" and "punk".