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Matrix
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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 dreadful 1999
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cypherpunk movie The Matrix played on this sense, which however had been
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established for years before. 3. The totality of present-day computer
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networks (popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside
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academic literature). 4. Type of internet messaging system.
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