Related:

• ISP /I-S-P/ Common abbreviation for Internet Service Provider, a kind of company that barely existed before 1993.
  ISPs sell Internet access to the mass market. While the big nationwide commercial BBSs with Internet access (like America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, Netcom, etc....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• backbone site n.,obs. Formerly, a key Usenet and email site
  one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps....
• IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
  Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
• backbone site: n. A key USENET and email site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic
  especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the USENET maps....
• fuzzball n. [TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted co-conspirato
  used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding and experimentation....
• fuzzball: [TCP/IP hackers] n. A DEC LSI-11 running a particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted co-conspirato
  used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding and experimentation....
• Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n. [MUD: from H.
  P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the Interne...
• FTP /F-T-P/, not /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
  2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol....