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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>the network</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="the-literature.html" title="the literature"/><link rel="next" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html" title="the X that can be Y is not the true X"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">the network</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-literature.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="the-network"/><dt xmlns="" id="the-network"><b>the network</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Historically, the union of all the major noncommercial, academic,
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and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the pre-1990 ARPANET,
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NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>
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‘networks’, plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial
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timesharing services (such as CompuServe, GEnie and AOL) that gateway to
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them. A site is generally considered <span class="firstterm">on the
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network</span> if it can be reached through some combination of
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Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. See
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<a href="../I/Internet.html"><i class="glossterm">Internet</i></a>, <a href="../B/bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a>,
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<a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Following the mass-culture discovery of the Internet in 1994 and
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subsequent proliferation of cheap TCP/IP connections, “<span class="quote">the
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network</span>” is increasingly synonymous with the Internet itself (as it
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was before the second wave of wide-area computer networking began around
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1980). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and
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anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel
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<i class="citetitle">Schrödinger's Cat</i>, to which many hackers have
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subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of
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<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p>In sense 1, <span class="firstterm">the network</span> is
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often abbreviated to <span class="firstterm">the net</span>.
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“<span class="quote">Are you on the net?</span>” is a frequent question when hackers
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first meet face to face, and “<span class="quote">See you on the net!</span>” is a
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frequent goodbye.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="the-literature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="the-X-that-can-be-Y-is-not-the-true-X.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">the literature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> the X that can be Y is not the true X</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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