May 15, 2003

notwork

/not´werk/ n.

A network, when it is acting flaky or is down. Compare nyetwork. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term from elsewhere.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:36 AM

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