Locals, The Pl.n. The Users On One's Local Network (as Opposed, Say, To People One Reaches Via Public Internet Or UUCP Connects).

Locals, The Pl.n. The Users On One's Local Network (as Opposed, Say, To People One Reaches Via Public Internet Or UUCP Connects).

Home › Fortune Cookies › Jargon File

locals, the pl.n.

The users on one's local network (as
opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP
connects). The marked thing about this usage is how little it has
to do with real-space distance. "I have to do some tweaking on
this mail utility before releasing it to the locals."

Related:

locals, the: pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance....
IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
UUCPNET n. obs. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software).
Any machine reachable only via a bang path is on UUCPNET....
A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
"That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man helping his fellow man"....
bang path n. [now historical] An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee
o called because each hop is signified by a bang sign....