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bandwidth
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n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical
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meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person,
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or transmission medium can handle. Those are amazing graphics, but I missed
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some of the detail not enough bandwidth, I guess. Compare low-bandwidth ;
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see also brainwidth. This generalized usage began to go mainstream after the
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Internet population explosion of 1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On Usenet
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, a measure of network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining
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about how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.
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