May 15, 2003

voice-net

n.

Hackish way of referring to the telephone system, analogizing it to a digital network. Usenet sig blocks not uncommonly include the sender's phone next to a Voice: or Voice-Net: header; common variants of this are Voicenet and V-Net. Compare paper-net, snail-mail.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:24 AM

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