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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.
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