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

the network n. 1. historically, the union of all the major
   noncommercial, academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as internet,
   the pre-1990 arpanet, nsfnet, bitnet, and the virtual uucp and
   usenet `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial
   time-sharing services such as compuserve, genie and aol that gateway
   to them. a site is generally considered `on the network' if it can be
   reached through some combination of internet-style @-sign and uucp
   bang-path addresses. see internet, bang path, internet
   address, network address. 2. following the mass-culture discovery of
   the internet in 1994 and subsequent proliferation of cheap tcp/ip
   connections, "the network" is increasingly synonymous with the internet
   itself as it was before the second wave of wide-area computer
   networking began around 1980.

  3. a fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and
   anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in robert anton wilson's
   novel "schro"dinger's cat", to which many hackers have subsequently
   decided they belong this is an example of ha ha only serious.

   in sense 1, `the network' is often abbreviated to `the net'. "are you
   on the net?" is a frequent question when hackers first meet face to
   face, and "see you on the net" is a frequent goodbye.


see also:
bitnet usenet internet bang path internet address network address 
ha ha only serious 

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

the network
     
        network, the
     
     
see also:
network, the 

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Network Managem >> N Words
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Network Meltdow >> N Words
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