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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)....
• File Attach: [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer....
• hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• ysop: /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.
  A common neophyte mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world....
• echo: [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system.
  Compare {newsgroup}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines.
  Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}....