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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bandwidth</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="banana-problem.html" title="banana problem"/><link rel="next" href="bang.html" title="bang"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bandwidth</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banana-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bandwidth"/><dt xmlns="" id="bandwidth"><b>bandwidth</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 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,
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person, or transmission medium can handle. “<span class="quote">Those are amazing
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graphics, but I missed some of the detail — not enough bandwidth, I
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guess.</span>” Compare <a href="../L/low-bandwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">low-bandwidth</i></a>; see also
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<a href="brainwidth.html"><i class="glossterm">brainwidth</i></a>. This generalized usage began to go
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mainstream after the Internet population explosion of 1993-1994. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Attention span. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. On <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>, a measure of network capacity
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that is often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others
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are a waste of bandwidth.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="banana-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">banana problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bang</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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