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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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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