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• BITNET: /bit'net/ [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] n.
  Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see {network, the})....
• It's hard to communicate when you already know what you want to hear.
• Two monks went fishing in an electron river. The first monk drew out his network, and out flopped a hacker.
  The second monk cried, "The poor hacker! How can it live outside of the network?...
• NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• etwork address n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see the network
  his used to include Internet address). Net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal name...
• How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
• 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....
• Hackers know what to diddle.