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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n. [MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's evil
     fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young]
     The harsh personification of the Internet: Beast of a Thousand
     Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call
     Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold
     connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet,


     sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail -- its
     purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown.
     Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing
     her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of:
     "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed
     by users of the Web, {FTP} and telnet when the system slows down. The
     dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that
     repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its
     lair beneath the Pentagon. Compare {Random Number God}.
  
     [January 1996: It develops that one of the computer administrators in
     the basement of the Pentagon read this entry and fell over laughing. As
     a result, you too can now poke Shub-Internet by {ping}ing
     shub-internet.ims.disa.mil. See also {kremvax}. --ESR]
  
     [April 1999: shub-internet.ims.disa.mil is no more, alas. But
     Shub-Internet lives o^$#$*^ --ESR]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Shub-Internet
       
          /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional
          deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young)
          The harsh personification of the {Internet}, Beast of a
          Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise,
          and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity
          formed of all the manifold connections of the net.  A sect of
          {MUD}ders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and
          praying for good connections.  To no avail - its purpose is
          malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown.
          Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet
          for slowing her down."  (A forged response often follows along
          the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps
          happily.")  Also cursed by users of {FTP} and {telnet} when
          the system slows down.  The dread name of Shub-Internet is
          seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three
          times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair
          beneath the Pentagon.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-11-04)
       
       

















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