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• FidoNet: n. A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanges mail, discussion groups, and files.
  Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet now includes such diverse machines as Apple ][s, Ataris, Amigas, and UNIX systems....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• File Attach [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one FidoNet to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a FidoNet mailer....
• File Request [FidoNet] 1. n. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one FidoNet system automatically dials another and snarfs 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....
• dup loop: /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') [FidoNet] n.
  An infinite stream of duplicated, near-identical messages on a FidoNet {echo}, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering {dup killer}s ineffective....
• dup loop /d[y]oop loop/ (also `dupe loop') n. [FidoNet] An infinite stream of duplicated
  ear-identical messages on a FidoNet echo, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering dup killers ineffective....
• echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
• Usenet /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ n. [from `Users' Network'
  he original spelling was USENET, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred] A distributed bboard (bulletin board) system supported mainly by Unix machines....
• 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)....