Related:

• Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! prov. [Usenet] Since Usenet first got off the ground in 1980-81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year.
  On the other hand, most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet has dropped steadily....
• Imminent death of the Net predicted--GIFs at 11
• Linux Dominates Academic Research A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....
• 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...
• The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth.
  But when, once every hundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis kills off most of the other life on the planet....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• et.personality /net per`sn-al'-*-tee/ n. Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usene
  hrough either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net....
• NSA line eater n. The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the U.
  S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to think it was mythical but believed in acting as though existed just in case....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....