(also `net address') As used by
hackers, means an address on `the' network (see the network; this used to include
Internet address). Net
addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute
for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other
quite well by network names without ever learning each others'
`legal' monikers. Indeed, display of a network address (e.g on
business cards) used to function as an important hacker
identification signal, like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed
T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans. In the day of pervasive
Internet this is less true, but you can still be fairly sure that
anyone with a network address handwritten on his or her convention
badge is a hacker.
etwork, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old
ARPANET, NSFnet, {BITNET}, and the virtual UUCP and {USENET}
`networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial
time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them....
he network n.
1. Historicaslly, 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....
