Notes on  BANDWIDTH 

1. [common] 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." Compare LOW-BANDWIDTH; see also BRAINWIDTH. This
generalized usage began to go mainstream after the Internet
population explosion of 1993-1994.

2. Attention span.

3. On USENET, a measure of network capacity that is often wasted by
people complaining about how items posted by others are a waste of
bandwidth.

J3N Research Labs

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