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• bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
  Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• ignal-to-noise ratio [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning.
  `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium....
• low-bandwidth: [from communication theory] adj. Used to indicate a talk that, although not {content-free}, was not terribly informative.
  That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of {suit}s!...
• paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• low-bandwidth adj. [from communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative.
  That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!...
• 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....
• paper-net n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• he network n. 1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major noncommercial
  academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the pre-1990 ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe, GEnie and AOL) that gateway to them....