netburp n.
[IRC] When netlag gets really
bad, and delays between servers exceed a certain threshhold, the
IRC network effectively becomes
partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people
seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on
again when things get better. An instance of this is called a
`netburp' (or, sometimes, netsplit).
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netdead n.
[IRC] The state of someone who signs off IRC, perhaps during a netburp, and doesn't sign back on until later.
In the interim, he is "dead to the net". Compare link-dead.
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nethack /net'hak/ n.
[Unix] A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C
source over Usenet and very popular
at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the
most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The
earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably
enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called `hack'. The name
changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers
originally organized by Mike Stephenson. There is now an official
site one at http://www.nethack.org/. See also
moria, rogue, Angband.
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netiquette /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ n.
[portmanteau, network + etiquette] The conventions of
politeness recognized on Usenet,
such as avoidance of cross-posting to inappropriate groups and
refraining from commercial pluggery outside the _biz_
groups.