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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Matrix</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="math-out.html" title="math-out"/><link rel="next" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html" title="maximum Maytag mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Matrix</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="math-out.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Matrix"/><dt xmlns="" id="Matrix"><b>Matrix</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [FidoNet] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call
<a href="../F/FidoNet.html"><i class="glossterm">FidoNet</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Fanciful term for a <a href="../C/cyberspace.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberspace</i></a> expected to
emerge from current networking experiments (see
<a href="../T/the-network.html"><i class="glossterm">the network</i></a>). The name of the rather good 1999
<a href="../C/cypherpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cypherpunk</i></a> movie <i class="citetitle">The Matrix</i>
played on this sense, which however had been established for years before.
</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The totality of present-day computer networks (popularized in
this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="math-out.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="maximum-Maytag-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">math-out </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> maximum Maytag mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>