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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.

2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

notwork
nyetwork

    /not'werk/ A network that is performing
   badly.

   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.

   The joke sounds better in Russian, where "nyet" means "no",
   hence nyetwork /nyet'werk/.

   (2009-05-28)

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