notwork

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

notwork

   /not'werk/ 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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