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notwork
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/notwerk/ , n. A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare
nyetwork. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of
flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are
independent reports of the term from elsewhere.