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Shub-Internet
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/shuhb int@rnet/ , n. [MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity
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Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh
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personification of the Internet: Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of
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Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous
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multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A
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sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for
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good connections. To no avail its purpose is malign and evil, and it is the
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cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in Freela casts a tac nuke at
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Shub-Internet for slowing her down. (A forged response often follows along
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the lines of: Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily. )
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Also cursed by users of the Web, FTP and telnet when the network lags. The
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dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that
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repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair
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beneath the Pentagon. Compare Random Number God.
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