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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]). The name of the rather good 1999 [cypherpunk] movie "The Matrix" played on this sense, which however had been established for years before. 3. The totality of present-day computer networks (popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).