Toasternet

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  toasternet
       
           1. A low cost, low tech, publicly accessible
          local community {network}.  This is probably an extension of
          the term "{toaster}" used to mean a small, cheap, slow
          computer.


       
          {community networks
          (gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/00/Community/communets/about.nets)}.
       
          2. The title of some informal notes on {Internet address}ing,
          ("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the {IETF}
          {mailing list} during November 1991 and March 1992.
       
          Subsequent work was published in June 1993 in {RFC 1475} and
          {RFC 1476} and the "{CATNIP}" {Internet-Draft} by Robert
          L. Ullmann
       
          (1995-05-01)