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• itename /si:t'naym/ n. [Unix/Internet] The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, Usenet, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
  The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display....
• etwork address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}
  his is almost always a {bang path} or {{Internet address}})....
• fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
• fred n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable (see foo).
  Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
• bang path: n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang} sign.
  Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!...
• 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...
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• 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....
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....