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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