The Network

The Network

(jargon, networking)(Or "the net") The union of all themajor noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks,such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, andthe virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporatein-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (suchas CompuServe) that gateway to them.

A site was generally considered "on the network" if it couldbe reached by electronic mail through some combination ofInternet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses.Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the termis now synonymous with the Internet.

See network address.

The Network

(body)A fictional conspiracy of libertarianhacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchersdescribed in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schr?dinger's Cat",to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong(this is an example of ha ha only serious).

The Network

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