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n. [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call FidoNet. 2.
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Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking
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experiments (see the network ). The name of the rather good 1999 cypherpunk
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movie The Matrix played on this sense, which however had been established
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for years before. 3. The totality of present-day computer networks
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(popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic
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literature).
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