net.- /net dot/ pref.
[Usenet] Prefix used to describe people and events related to Usenet. From the time before the [Great Renaming], when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net.'. Includes [net.god]s, `net.goddesses' (various charismatic net.women with circles of on-line admirers), `net.lurkers' (see [lurker]), `net.person', `net.parties' (a synonym for [boink], sense 2), and many similar constructs. See also [net.police].
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