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• 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....
• virtual reality: n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation.
  See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions' magazines....
• Matrix: [FidoNet] n. 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call {FidoNet}.
  2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the})....
• virtual reality n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation.
  See cyberspace. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions' magazines....
• hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
  2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic)....
• meatspace /meet'spays/ n. The physical world, where the meat lives - as opposed to cyberspace.
  Hackers are actually more willing to use this term than `cyberspace', because it's not speculative - we already have a running meatspace implementation (the universe)....
• 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)....
• 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....
• 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...