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• CI$: // n. Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service.
  The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges....
• Compu$erve n. See CI$. Synonyms CompuSpend and Compu$pend are also reported.
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• Bother! said Pooh, as he received his Compuserve bill.
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• paper-net n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...
• emoticon /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news.
  Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usene...