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

network address n. also `net address' as used by hackers, means an
   address on `the' network see the network; this used to include bang
   path addresses but now almost always implies an internet address.
   net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute
   for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite
   well by network names without ever learning each others' `legal'
   monikers. indeed, display of a network address e.g. on business cards
   used to function as an important hacker identification signal, like
   lodge pins among masons or tie-dyed t-shirts among grateful dead fans.
   in the day of pervasive internet this is less true, but you can still be
   fairly sure that anyone with a network address handwritten on his or her
   convention badge is a hacker.


see also:
the network bang path internet address 

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

network address
     
         1. the network portion of an ip address.  for a
        class a network, the network address is the first byte of
        the ip address.  for a class b network, the network address
        is the first two bytes of the ip address.  for a class c
        network, the network address is the first three bytes of the
        ip address.  in each case, the remainder is the host
        address.  in the internet, assigned network addresses are
        globally unique.
     
        see also subnet address, internet registry.
     
        2. or "net address" an electronic mail address on the
        network.  in the 1980s this might have been a bang path but
        now 1997 it is nearly always a domain address.  such an
        address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously
        by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that
        claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among
        hackers but don't display net addresses are quietly presumed
        to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed.
     
        hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards
        and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to
        meet other hackers face-to-face e.g. science-fiction
        fandom.  this is mostly functional, but is also a signal
        that one identifies with hackerdom like lodge pins among
        masons or tie-dyed t-shirts among grateful dead fans.  net
        addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise
        substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to
        know each other quite well by network names without ever
        learning each others' real monikers.
     
        see also sitename, domainist.
     
        jargon file
     
        1997-05-10
     
     
see also:
ip address class a byte class b network class c network host address 
internet subnet address internet registry electronic mail the network 
bang path domain address hackers flush science-fiction fandom 
sitename domainist jargon file 

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