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