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Shub-Internet Shub-Internet/shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictionaldeity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young)The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of aThousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise,and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entityformed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect ofMUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects andpraying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose ismalign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown.Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internetfor slowing her down." (A forged response often follows alongthe lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burpshappily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet whenthe system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet isseldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it threetimes will cause the being to wake, deep within its lairbeneath the Pentagon. |