| network, the 1. (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as , the old , , , and the virtual and "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial services (such as ) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP () addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See . 2. A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ). [] (1999-01-26) |
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